On the valid publication of names of mycobacteria. Issue 4 (24th October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Oren, Aharon; Trujillo, Martha E.
• Is Part Of: European respiratory journal. Volume 54:Issue 4(2019)
• Publication Date: 2019-10-24
• Subjects: Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Respiration -- Periodicals; 616.2
• DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01483-2019
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0903-1936

Abstract

In their paper entitled "Same meat, different gravy: ignore the new names of mycobacteria", Tortoli et al. [1] called to ignore the recently proposed generic names Mycobacteroides, Mycolicibacter, Mycolicibacterium and Mycolicibacillus in which some species of Mycobacterium were reclassified [2], and to keep using the old names. The authors correctly stated that with the validation of the new names in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology ( IJSEM ) [3], the old names remain validly published and anyone is free to use them. By explaining this, they did a great service to the community of microbiologists and clinicians. The message presented by Tortoli and co-workers in their paper "Same meat, different gravy: ignore the new names of mycobacteria" is correct, but the paper contains many errors and misconceptions about the functioning of the Prokaryotic Code and the IJSEM http://bit.ly/2YD9u6s