The 1997 list - Proposed new bacterial taxa and proposed changes of bacterial names published during 1997 and considered to be of interest to medicalor veterinary bacteriology - An informational note
W. Frederiksen et al., The 1997 list - Proposed new bacterial taxa and proposed changes of bacterial names published during 1997 and considered to be of interest to medicalor veterinary bacteriology - An informational note, APMIS, 106(12), 1998, pp. 1204-1209
A list of names published or validated in 1997 is presented. We also commen
t on the tendency to base names of new taxa on a single bacterial strain, a
nd the consequences for reliable descriptions that this tendency implies.