title: Proposed reclassification of Pasteurella lymphangitidis Sneath & Stevens 1990 as Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
abstract: The 16S rRNA gene sequences of Pasteurella lymphangitidis, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia pestis were found to be identical and multilocus sequence analysis could not discriminate between the three species. The susceptibility to a Y. pseudotuberculosis phage and the presence of the Y. pseudotuberculosis-specific invasin gene in P. lymphangitidis indicate that the latter should be reclassified as Y. pseudotuberculosis.
authors.affiliation: Lille University Medical Centre, F-59037 Lille, France.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gaillot
authors.affiliation: Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Nazaire F-44100, France.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Lemenand
authors.affiliation: INSERM U1019, F-59000 Lille, France.
authors.forename: Michaël
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marceau
authors.affiliation: INSERM U1019, F-59000 Lille, France.|Lille University Medical Centre, F-59037 Lille, France.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Simonet
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D010325:Pasteurella / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D015011:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S