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A data set containing old (previously valid or accepted) taxonomic names according to the Catalogue of Life. This data set is used internally by as.mo().

Usage

microorganisms.old

Format

A data.frame with 14,338 observations and 4 variables:

  • fullname
    Old full taxonomic name of the microorganism

  • fullname_new
    New full taxonomic name of the microorganism

  • ref
    Author(s) and year of concerning scientific publication

  • prevalence
    Prevalence of the microorganism, see as.mo()

Source

Catalogue of Life: Annual Checklist (public online taxonomic database), http://www.catalogueoflife.org (check included annual version with catalogue_of_life_version()).

Parte, A.C. (2018). LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (bacterio.net), 20 years on. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68, 1825-1829; doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.002786

Catalogue of Life


This package contains the complete taxonomic tree of almost all microorganisms (~71,000 species) from the authoritative and comprehensive Catalogue of Life (CoL, http://www.catalogueoflife.org). The CoL is the most comprehensive and authoritative global index of species currently available. Nonetheless, we supplemented the CoL data with data from the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN, lpsn.dsmz.de). This supplementation is needed until the CoL+ project is finished, which we await.

Click here for more information about the included taxa. Check which versions of the CoL and LPSN were included in this package with catalogue_of_life_version().

Reference Data Publicly Available

All reference data sets (about microorganisms, antibiotics, R/SI interpretation, EUCAST rules, etc.) in this AMR package are publicly and freely available. We continually export our data sets to formats for use in R, SPSS, SAS, Stata and Excel. We also supply flat files that are machine-readable and suitable for input in any software program, such as laboratory information systems. Please find all download links on our website, which is automatically updated with every code change.

Examples

head(microorganisms.old)
#>                     fullname                 fullname_new
#> 1    Abaphospora petrucciana          Nectria petrucciana
#> 2      Abathostoma stercoris    Echinocyclidium stercoris
#> 3  Abbottina tannerbankensis       Nonion tannerbankensis
#> 4 Abditodentrix rhomboidalis  Tortoplectella rhomboidalis
#> 5       Abiotrophia adiacens      Granulicatella adiacens
#> 6  Abiotrophia balaenopterae Granulicatella balaenopterae
#>                       ref prevalence
#> 1          Kirschst, 1939          2
#> 2 Berger in Corliss, 1979          3
#> 3         McCulloch, 1977          3
#> 4           Millett, 1899          3
#> 5   Kawamura et al., 1995          2
#> 6     Lawson et al., 1999          2