The confusion stems from the similarity of the genus names
Microbacterium Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Takeuchi
and Hatano 1998
and
Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)
There is indeed a validly published genus name 'Microbacterium',
contrary to what some others have responded. Questions of taxonomy can
be checked at the web site for the "List of Bacterial names with
Standing in Nomenclature"
http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/index.html
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Sean Turner, Ph.D.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (GenBank)
National Library of Medicine
NIH, Building 45, Room 6AN.12 phone: 301-435-8943
45 Center Drive, MSC 6510 fax: 301-480-2918
Bethesda, MD 20892-6510, USA e-mail: turner at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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