Abstract
A list of names of bacteria published or validated in 1997 is presented. Comments are made of the tendency to base names of new taxa on a single bacterial strain and the consequences for reliable descriptions that this tendency implies.
Research Article
Proposed new bacterial taxa and proposed changes of bacterial names published during 1997 and considered to be of interest to medical or veterinary bacteriology
Journal of Medical Microbiology 1999; 48(2):113