Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Brachyspira pilosicoli, formerly Serpulina pilosicoli
Burkholderia mallei, formerly Pseudomonas mallei
Chlamydophila pneumoniae, formerly TWAR serovar
Cladophialophora bantiana, formerly Xylohypha bantiana
Cystoisospora belli, formerly Isospora belli
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, formerly Chryseobacterium meningosep-
ticum, formerly Flavobacterium meningosepticum
Encephalitozoon intestinalis, formerly Septata intestinalis
Fluoribacter bozemanae, formerly Legionella bozemanae
Gardnerella vaginalis,
formerly Corynebacterium vaginalis,
formerly
Haemophilus vaginalis
Helicobacter pylori, formerly Campylobacter pylori
Klebsiella granulomatis, formerly Calymmatobacterium granulomatis,
formerly Donovania granulomatis
Malassezia furfur, formerly Pityrosporum ovale
Micromonas micros,
formerly Peptostreptococcus micros
formerly
Parvimonas micros
Mycolcadus corymbifera, formerly Absidia corymbifera
Neorickettsia sennetsu, formerly Ehrlichia sennetsu
Norovirus, formerly Norwalk virus
Pneumocystis jiroveci, formerly Pneumocystis carinii
Rotavirus, formerly gastroenteritis virus type B
Sarcocystis suihominis, formerly Isospora hominis
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, formerly Pseudomonas maltophilia
Tropheryma whipplei, formerly Tropheryma whippelii
Volutella cinerescens, formerly Psilonia cinerescens
The organism now called Rhodococcus equi has had more than its share of
name changes. These include: Corynebacterium equi, Bacillus hoagii,
Corynebacterium purulentus, Mycobacterium equi, Mycobacterium restrictum,
Nocardia restricta,andProactinomyces restrictus.
Taxonomic instability impacts negatively on clinical practice. When the
name of an organism changes, so must the name of the associated disease.
Consider “Allescheria boydii.” People infected with this fungal organism
were said to suffer from the disease known as allescheriasis. When the
organism's name was changed to Petriellidium boydii, the disease name was
changed to petriellidosis. When the fungal name was changed, once more, to
Pseudallescheria boydii, the disease name was changed to pseudallescherio-
sis [102]. Changes in the standard names of a fungus, appearing in the
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, should trigger concurrent
changes in the standard nomenclatures of medicine, such as the World
Health Organization's International Classification of Disease, and the
National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings, and a variety of
specialized disease nomenclatures. Some of these nomenclatures update
