The association of Streptococcus bovis/gallolyticus with colorectal tumors: The nature and the underlying mechanisms of its etiological role

Table 1 The milestone of the taxonomy of S. bovis/gallolyticus and the closely related members of group D streptococci [11, 127].

Old nomenclature	Later nomenclature	Recent nomenclature
S. bovis biotype I	S. gallolyticus	S. gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus
S. bovis biotype II/1	S. infantarius	S. infantarius subsp. infantarius
	S. infantarius subsp. Coli	S. lutetiensis
S. bovis biotype II/2	S. pasteurianus S. macedonicus	S. gallolyticus subsp. Pasteurianus S. gallolyticus subsp. macedonicus

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