A plea for caution before changing bacterial names in databases

Jeffrey Jones

Precise accepted nomenclature is critical for precisely referring to the causal agent by th correct name.

Costantino Vetriani

Exactly for the reasons articulated in the petition

Nick Jakubovics

Changing bacterial names causes significant problems and confusion until the new names become widely adopted. In several cases, names have subsequently changed again, causing further confusion. It would be better to take a more cautious approach to renaming bacterial taxa, as proposed in this petition.

Chip Kam Weng

Nomenclature and taxonomy are of utmost importance in scientific communication

Tsutomu Sekizaki

I always check the update taxonomy of bacteria. This greatly helps me to prepare the lecture of veterinary bacteriology in the University.

Luciano Augusto Palomino Kobayashi

Bacterial species determination is important since I work in bacterial genomics

HARI POLENAKOVIK

tp make it less confusing and more clinically relevant

miriam cordovana

Continuous taxonomy changes are creating serious issues in the clinical microbiology routine practice

Rachel Derscheid

The over-splitting and rapid adoption of proposed new names is confusing and often not fully "validated"; as an example, errors in Gupta et al's work have been identified.

Kalyani Maitra

To maintain uniformity in the bacterial taxon identification.

Neža Čadež

As a yeast taxonomist, I struggle with genus name changes that are made without consensus within the yeast research community. Therefore, I fully support the conservation of genus names and a consensus-based approach to any future bacterial genus name changes.

José Santos

As an Actinomycetota expert, I urge caution before modifying taxonomic names. These bacteria depend on stable nomenclature for vital scientific work, which can be disrupted. Moreover, name modification can obscure literature searches and fracture genomic datasets.

Katalin Kiss

we cannot change labels and product sheets once a product is made and distributed. These name changes create a risk for end users!

Jose Miguel Lopez-Coronao

Bacterial name changes arise from developments in the study of bacterial taxonomy, but the implications for human and animal health should be considered before a name change is made.

David Ellis

Nomenclature of microorganisms is essential for clinical practice, diagnostic accuracy, patient safety, and the payment of healthcare services. I support this initiative because changes should be made prudently - as much as necessary, as little as possible.

Learn-Han Lee

I support this petition.

Patrick Mc Gann

It can be extremely problematic when new names are assigned on a whim and without going through the proper channels. This petition is a step in the right direction!

Michael Arabatzis

I often meet useful sites such as NCBI Taxonomy adopting the newest nomenclature proposals before a general consensus

Lucas Domínguez

Markus Göker, thank you very much for this initiative. It was becoming much needed at this point.

Ian Laurenson

As a clinical microbiologist and infection specialist this is a real issue and often leads to unecessary confusion and risks, eg in the field of mycobacteriology.