Talk:Rhodococcus equi

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New generic name

Rhodococcus equi has been given its own new genus: Prescottia from Jones, Sutcliffe and Goodfellow (2013) Prescottia equi gen. nov., comb. nov.: a new home for an old pathogen, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 103 (3), pp. 655-671, doi:10.1007/s10482-012-9850-8 Elspooky (talk) 23:18, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what to do with this. I don't want to create this big move off of one source, but I do want to accurately reflect the literature. I think I'm going to leave it be for now: see a name correction paper, I want to see some citations first. Icebob99 (talk) 19:03, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I added a section about the debate over the name. The debate has been going on for over 30 years, and doesn't look like it will be finalized soon. DferDaisy (talk) 02:58, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed this morning that the V10 Bruker MALDI-TOF database calls it Rhodococcus hoagii. NCBI taxonomy browser is (as of 22 June 2021) calling it Rhodococcus hoagii with equi being a homotypic synonym. The reason for the change is that, as a species name, hoagii predates equi by a decade (Morse 1912 for hoagii, Magnusson 1923 for equi). Serrin (talk) 23:12, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]