[The problem of predicting new species of microorganisms (the example of nonfermenting gram-negative microorganisms)]

Various microbial species, embraced by the genera, have been found to correspond to their phylogeny by the types of nutrition and the levels of pathogenicity. A relationship between the types of nutrition and the levels of parasitism and pathogenicity has been revealed. The results of analysis make it possible to assume, with a great degree of probability, the existence of new species (subspecies, variants) in the environment and/or as agents of diseases of unclear etiology.