Yabuuchi E
Department of Bacteriology, Osaka City University, Medical School.
Rinsho Byori. 1990 Nov;38(11):1254-9.
Taxonomy is the basic stand point for every field of bacteriology and provides a common language to each worker and researcher in bacteriology throughout the world. Proper identification of isolates from human pathological specimens or from hospital environments is one of the five principal fields of bacterial taxonomy. Before the establishment of classification and stabilization of nomenclature, any isolate can not be identified. Collection of unidentifiable strains is the starting point of new taxonomic investigation. Doctors in medical fields tend to be too much concerned to the infrasubspecific subdivisions, such as serological classification, toxigenicity, resistance to antimicrobics, rather ignoring the classification above the rank of subspecies. Doctors who take care patients and workers in clinical bacteriology laboratories should recognize the importance of bacterial taxonomy in general and use the necessary information in taxonomy selectively.
分类学是细菌学各个领域的基本立足点，并为世界各地细菌学领域的每一位工作者和研究人员提供了一种通用语言。对来自人类病理标本或医院环境的分离株进行正确鉴定是细菌分类学的五个主要领域之一。在建立分类和稳定命名法之前，任何分离株都无法得到鉴定。收集无法鉴定的菌株是新分类学研究的起点。医学领域的医生往往过于关注亚种以下的细分，如血清学分类、产毒性、对抗菌素的耐药性，而忽略了亚种以上的分类。照顾患者的医生以及临床细菌学实验室的工作人员应该认识到细菌分类学的总体重要性，并选择性地使用分类学中的必要信息。
