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Abstract

A recent review of the nomenclatural history of and its heterotypic synonyms reveals a situation in which the strict application of the Rules of the have resulted in the renaming of this known zoonotic pathogen, which may be reasonably viewed as a perilous name. This situation can be remedied only by the Judicial Commission rendering an opinion to conserve the name and to reject its earlier heterotypic synonym, .

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