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This collection brings together 4,842 matching articles from the Society for General Microbiology archive.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology: 4,703 articles
Microbiology: 79 articles
Journal of Medical Microbiology: 33 articles
Journal of General Virology: 27 articles

Research areas in this collection

Novel species descriptions
Nomenclature and classification
Phylogeny and evolutionary relationships
Phenotypic and genomic identification

Microbial taxonomy and systematics articles

Showing records 1–60 of 4,842, ordered using archive prominence and publication metadata.

Description of Tersicoccus phoenicis gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from spacecraft assembly clean room environments

Parag Vaishampayan, Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Rüdiger Pukall, Peter Schumann, Cathrin Spröer, Angela Augustus, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Methylobacterium cerastii sp. nov., a novel species isolated from the leaf surface of Cerastium holosteoides

Stefanie A. Wellner, Nicole Lodders, Peter Kämpfer

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Halomonas titanicae sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from the RMS Titanic

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2010

Limnohabitans curvus gen. nov., sp. nov., a planktonic bacterium isolated from a freshwater lake

Martin W. Hahn, Vojtěch Kasalický, Jan Jezbera, Ulrike Brandt, Jitka Jezberová, Karel Šimek

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2010

Cronobacter condimenti sp. nov., isolated from spiced meat and Cronobacter universalis sp. nov., a novel species designation for Cronobacter sp. genomospecies 1, recovered from a leg infection, water, and food ingredients

Susan Joseph, Esin Cetinkaya, Hana Drahovska, Arturo Levican, Ma Jose Figueras, Stephen J Forsythe

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Studies on Stigmatella aurantiaca (Myxobacterales)

H. REICHENBACH, M. DWORKIN

Journal of General Microbiology1969

Enterococcus ureilyticus sp. nov. and Enterococcus rotai sp. nov., two urease-producing enterococci from the environment

Ivo Sedláček, Pavla Holochová, Ivana Mašlaňová, Marcel Kosina, Cathrin Spröer, Hana Bryndová, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Streptococcus tigurinus sp. nov., isolated from blood of patients with endocarditis, meningitis and spondylodiscitis

Andrea Zbinden, Nicolas J. Mueller, Philip E. Tarr, Cathrin Spröer, Peter M. Keller, Guido V. Bloemberg

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi

Frank E. Löffler, Jun Yan, Kirsti M. Ritalahti, Lorenz Adrian, Elizabeth A. Edwards, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Lactobacillus porcinae sp. nov. isolated from traditional Vietnamese nem chua

Doan Thi Lam Nguyen, Margo Cnockaert, Koenraad Van Hoorde, Evie De Brandt, Isabel Snauwaert, Cindy Snauwaert, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Description of Sinomonas soli sp. nov., reclassification of Arthrobacter echigonensis and Arthrobacter albidus (Ding et al. 2009) as Sinomonas echigonense comb. nov. and Sinomonas albida comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Sinomonas

Yu Zhou, Microbiolo, Xiaoyun Chen, Yu Zhang, Wei Wang, Junfeng Xu

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Streptomyces brevispora sp. nov. and Streptomyces laculatuspora sp. nov., novel actinomycetes isolated from soil

Tiago D. Zucchi, Byung-Yong Kim, Jenileima D. Kshetrimayum, Hang-Yeon Weon, Soon-Wo Kwon, Michael Goodfellow

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Telmatobacter bradus gen. nov., sp. nov., a cellulolytic facultative anaerobe from subdivision 1 of the Acidobacteria and emended description of Acidobacterium capsulatum Kishimoto et al. 1991

Timofey A Pankratov, Lilia A. Kirsanova, Elena N. Kaparullina, Vadim V. Kevbrin, Svetlana N. Dedysh

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Olivibacter oleidegradans sp. nov. hydrocarbon degrading strain isolated from a clean-up facility (biofilter) set up on a Hungarian hydrocarbon contaminated site

István Szabó, Sándor Szoboszlay, Balázs Kriszt, Judit Háhn, Péter Harkai, Erzsébet Baka, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Description of Xenorhabdus magdalenensis sp. nov., the symbiotic bacterium associated with Steinernema australe

Patrick Tailliez, Sylvie Pagès, Steve Edgington, Lukasz M. Tymo, Alan G. Buddie

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Peptostreptococcus russellii sp. nov., isolated from a swine-manure storage pit

Terence R. Whitehead, Michael A. Cotta, Enevold Falsen, Edward Moore, Paul A. Lawson

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Lactobacillus porcinae sp. nov., isolated from traditional Vietnamese nem chua

Doan Thi Lam Nguyen, Margo Cnockaert, Koenraad Van Hoorde, Evie De Brandt, Isabel Snauwaert, Cindy Snauwaert, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Vagococcus entomophilus sp. nov., from the digestive tract of a wasp (Vespula vulgaris)

J. Killer, P. Švec, I. Sedláček, J. Černohlávková, O. Benada, Z. Hroncová, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2014

Halomonas titanicae sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from the RMS Titanic — Supplementary material

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Polyphasic taxonomic revision of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex: proposal to emend the descriptions of R. solanacearum and R. syzygii and reclassify current R. syzygii strains as Ralstonia syzygii subsp. syzygii , R. solanacearum phylotype IV strains as Ralstonia syzygii subsp. indonesiensis subsp. nov., banana blood disease bacterium strains as Ralstonia syzygii subsp. celebesensis subsp. nov. and R. solanacearum phylotypes I and III strains as Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum sp. nov.

Irda Safni, Ilse Cleenwerk, Paul De Vos, Mark Fegan, Lindsay Sly, Ulrike Kappler

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2014

Proposal of Vespertiliibacter pulmonis gen. nov., sp. nov. and two genomospecies as new members of the family Pasteurellaceae isolated from European bats

Kristin Muehldorfer, Stephanie Speck, Gudrun Wibbelt

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2014

Five new species of Listeria (L. floridensis sp. nov, L. aquatica sp. nov., L. cornellensis sp. nov. L. riparia sp. nov., and L. grandensis sp. nov.) from agricultural and natural environments in the United States

Henk C. den Bakker, Steven Warchocki, Emily M. Wright, Adam F. Allred, Christina Ahlstrom, Clyde S. Manuel, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2014

Algoriphagus machipongonensis sp. nov., co-isolated with a colonial choanoflagellate

Rosanna A. Alegado, Jonathan D. Grabenstatter, Richard Zuzow, Andrea Morris, Sherri Y. Huang, Roger E. Summons, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligate organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria, relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidetes classis nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi

Frank E. Löffler, Jun Yan, Kirsti M. Ritalahti, Lorenz Adrian, Elizabeth A. Edwards, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Alteribacillus bidgolensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a hypersaline Iranian lake, and reclassification of Bacillus persepolensis as Alteribacillus persepolensis comb. nov.

Maryam Didari, Mohammad Ali Amoozegar, Maryam Bagheri, Peter Schumann, Cathrin Spröer, Cristina Sánchez-Porro, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Cyclobacterium qasimii sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from a marine sediment of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

Sisinthy Shivaji, P. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy, S. S. S. Nageshwara Rao, Zareena Begum, T. N. R. Srinivas

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2010

Aspergillus baeticus sp. nov. and Aspergillus thesauricus sp. nov., two species in section Usti from Spanish caves

Alena Nováková, Vit Hubka, Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez, Miroslav Kolarik

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Helicobacter canis sp. nov., a new species from dogs: an integrated study of phenotype and genotype

John Stanley, Dennis Linton, André P. Burnens, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Robert J Owen, Anthony Porter, et al.

Journal of General Microbiology1993

Halopenitus persicus gen. nov., sp. nov., an archaeon from an inland salt lake

Mohammad Ali Amoozegar, Ali Makhdoumi-Kakhki, Seyed Abolhassan Shahzadeh Fazeli, Reza Azarbaijani, Antonio Ventosa

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Chryseomicrobium imtechense gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Planococcaceae

Pankaj Kumar Arora, Archana Chauhan, Bhawana Pant, Suresh Korpole, Shanmugam Mayilraj, Rakesh Kumar Jain

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Classification of eight new species of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria: Nitrosomonas communis sp. nov., Nitrosomonas ureae sp. nov., Nitrosomonas aestuarii sp. nov., Nitrosomonas marina sp. nov., Nitrosomonas nitrosa sp. nov., Nitrosomonas eutropha sp. nov., Nitrosomonas oligotropha sp. nov. and Nitrosomonas halophila sp. nov.

H. P. Koops, B. Böttcher, U. C. Möller, A. Pommerening-Röser, G. Stehr

Journal of General Microbiology1991

Chemotaxonomic Study of an Alkalophilic Bacterium, Exiguobacterium aurantiacum gen. nov., sp. nov.

Journal of General Microbiology1983

Two novel methods for using genome sequences to infer taxonomy

David W. Ussery, Stephen V. Gordon

Microbiology2012

Polyphasic taxonomic revision of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex: proposal to emend the descriptions of R. solanacearum and R. syzygii and reclassify current R. syzygii strains as Ralstonia syzygii subsp. syzygii , R. solanacearum phylotype IV strains as Ralstonia syzygii subsp. indonesiensis subsp. nov., banana blood disease bacterium strains as Ralstonia syzygii subsp. celebesensis subsp. nov. and R. solanacearum phylotypes I and III strains as Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum sp. nov.

Irda Safni, Ilse Cleenwerk, Paul De Vos, Mark Fegan, Lindsay Sly, Ulrike Kappler

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2014

Five new species of Listeria (L. floridensis sp. nov, L. aquatica sp. nov., L. cornellensis sp. nov. L. riparia sp. nov., and L. grandensis sp. nov.) from agricultural and natural environments in the United States

Henk C. den Bakker, Steven Warchocki, Emily M. Wright, Adam F. Allred, Christina Ahlstrom, Clyde S. Manuel, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2014

Lactobacillus porcinae sp. nov. isolated from traditional Vietnamese nem chua

Doan Thi Lam Nguyen, Margo Cnockaert, Koenraad Van Hoorde, Evie De Brandt, Isabel Snauwaert, Cindy Snauwaert, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligate organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria, relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidetes classis nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi

Frank E. Löffler, Jun Yan, Kirsti M. Ritalahti, Lorenz Adrian, Elizabeth A. Edwards, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Algoriphagus machipongonensis sp. nov. co-isolated with a colonial choanoflagellate

Rosanna A. Alegado, Jonathan D. Grabenstatter, Richard Zuzow, Andrea Morris, Sherri Y. Huang, Roger E. Summons, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Streptococcus tigurinus sp. nov., isolated from blood of patients with endocarditis, meningitis and spondylodiscitis

Andrea Zbinden, Nicolas J. Mueller, Philip E. Tarr, Cathrin Spröer, Peter M. Keller, Guido V. Bloemberg

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Alteribacillus bidgolensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a hypersaline Iranian lake, and reclassification of Bacillus persepolensis as Alteribacillus persepolensis comb. nov.

Maryam Didari, Mohammad Ali Amoozegar, Maryam Bagheri, Peter Schumann, Cathrin Spröer, Cristina Sánchez-Porro, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2012

Cronobacter condimenti sp. nov., isolated from spiced meat and Cronobacter universalis sp. nov., a novel species designation for Cronobacter sp. genomospecies 1, recovered from a leg infection, water, and food ingredients

Susan Joseph, Esin Cetinkaya, Hana Drahovska, Arturo Levican, Ma Jose Figueras, Stephen J Forsythe

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Methylobacterium cerastii sp. nov., a novel species isolated from the leaf surface of Cerastium holosteoides

Stefanie A. Wellner, Nicole Lodders, Peter Kämpfer

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Description of Sinomonas soli sp. nov., reclassification of Arthrobacter echigonensis and Arthrobacter albidus (Ding et al. 2009) as Sinomonas echigonense comb. nov. and Sinomonas albida comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Sinomonas

Yu Zhou, Microbiolo, Xiaoyun Chen, Yu Zhang, Wei Wang, Junfeng Xu

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Streptomyces brevispora sp. nov. and Streptomyces laculatuspora sp. nov., novel actinomycetes isolated from soil

Tiago D. Zucchi, Byung-Yong Kim, Jenileima D. Kshetrimayum, Hang-Yeon Weon, Soon-Wo Kwon, Michael Goodfellow

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Telmatobacter bradus gen. nov., sp. nov., a cellulolytic facultative anaerobe from subdivision 1 of the Acidobacteria and emended description of Acidobacterium capsulatum Kishimoto et al. 1991

Timofey A Pankratov, Lilia A. Kirsanova, Elena N. Kaparullina, Vadim V. Kevbrin, Svetlana N. Dedysh

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Olivibacter oleidegradans sp. nov. hydrocarbon degrading strain isolated from a clean-up facility (biofilter) set up on a Hungarian hydrocarbon contaminated site

István Szabó, Sándor Szoboszlay, Balázs Kriszt, Judit Háhn, Péter Harkai, Erzsébet Baka, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2011

Cyclobacterium qasimii sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from a marine sediment of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

Sisinthy Shivaji, P. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy, S. S. S. Nageshwara Rao, Zareena Begum, T. N. R. Srinivas

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2010

Notification that new names of prokaryotes and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 9, of the IJSEM

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Exiguobacterium alkaliphilum sp. nov. isolated from alkaline wastewater drained sludge of a beverage factory

Niha Mohan Kulshreshtha, Rita Kumar, Zareena Begum, S. Shivaji, Anil Kumar

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Halolamina salifodinae sp. nov. and Halolamina salina sp. nov., two extremely halophilic archaea isolated from a salt mine

Wei-Yan Zhang, Ying-Yi Huo, Xin-Qi Zhang, Xu-Fen Zhu, Min Wu

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Chryseobacterium hispalense sp. nov., a plant-growth-promoting bacterium isolated from a rainwater pond in an olive plant nursery, and emended descriptions of Chryseobacterium defluvii, Chryseobacterium indologenes, Chryseobacterium wanjuense and Chryseobacterium gregarium

Maria del Carmen Montero-Calasanz, Markus Göker, Manfred Rohde, Cathrin Spröer, Peter Schumann, Hans-Jürgen Busse, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Pedobacter ginsenosidimutans sp. nov., with ginsenoside-converting activity

Jung-Eun Yang, Heung-Min Son, Jung Min Lee, Heon-Sub Shin, Sang-Yong Park, Don-Gil Lee, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Acinetobacter kookii sp. nov., isolated from soil

Ji Young Choi, Gwangpyo Ko, Weonghwa Jheong, Geert Huys, Harald Seifert, Lenie Dijkshoorn, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Algimonas ampicilliniresistens sp. nov., isolated from the red alga Porphyra yezoensis, and emended description of the genus Algimonas

Youhei Fukui, Masahiro Kobayashi, Hiroaki Saito, Hiroshi Oikawa, Yutaka Yano, Masataka Satomi

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Alloscardovia macacae sp. nov., isolated from the milk of a macaque (Macaca mulatta), emended description of the genus Alloscardovia and proposal of Alloscardovia criceti comb. nov.

J. Killer, Š. Ročková, E. Vlková, V. Rada, J. Havlík, J. Kopečný, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013

Description of Streptomonospora sediminis sp. nov. and Streptomonospora nanhaiensis sp. nov., and reclassification of Nocardiopsis arabia Hozzein & Goodfellow 2008 as Streptomonospora arabica comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Streptomonospora

Dao-Feng Zhang, Hua-Qi Pan, Jie He, Xiao-Mei Zhang, Yong-Guang Zhang, Hans-Peter Klenk, et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2013