title: Proposed new bacterial taxa and proposed changes of bacterial names published during 1997 and considered to be of interest to medical or veterinary bacteriology.
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.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Frederiksen
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff CF4 4XW.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Magee
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Lund University, MalmÖ General Hospital, S-21401 MalmÖ, Sweden.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ursing
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D009626:Terminology as Topic