Cite this strain

Legionella birminghamensis (DSM 19232, ATCC 43702, CIP 103871)

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BacDive ID 6738

Type strain

Strain Designation 1407-AL-H

Culture col. no. DSM 19232 ATCC 43702 CIP 103871 CCUG 31233 A 1407-AL-H 4 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 28083

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM KCTC CIP

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Name and taxonomic classification

Legionella birminghamensis 1407-AL-H is a mesophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from human lung biopsy.

Gram-negative mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

SI-ID 41995

ATCC 43702, CCUG 31233 A, CIP 103871, JCM 7559, KCTC 12007, NCTC 12437, BCRC 17042, CCRC 17042, DSM 19232

Last LPSN update 2024-12-09 10:43:52

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella birminghamensis

Full scientific name Legionella birminghamensis Wilkinson et al. 1988

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	99.8
125438	negative	98.494

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
7981	BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BCYE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base
40841	MEDIUM 23 - for Afipia and Legionella		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Legionella agar (37.000 g);Legionella - enrichment mixture (10.000 ml)
116821	CIP Medium 23	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
7981	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
40841	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.6
125438		91.935

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	96.2

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Infection	#Patient	#Biopsy
#Host	#Human	-
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways	#Lung

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
7981	human lung biopsy	Alabama	USA	USA	North America
50488	Human lung biopsy	Alabama	USA	USA	North America
67770	Lung biopsy	AL	USA	USA	North America
116821	Lung biopsy	Alabama	United States of America	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence Z49717 (>99% sequence identity) for Legionella birminghamensis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	68
Soil Samples	61
Animal Samples	11
Plant Samples	26
Total Samples	166

Safety information

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7981	2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
116821	2	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)
7981	42.9
67770	42.9

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Legionella birminghamensis strain MDC1589 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JF720359	524	28083
7981	L.birminghamiensis gene for ribosomal RNA, small subunit	Z49717	1467	28083
67770	Legionella birminghamensis JCM 7559 gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	LC504038	1466	28083

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Assembly level	Database	NCBI tax ID
66792	Legionella birminghamensis 1407-AL-H	GCA_900639775	scaffold		28083
66792	Legionella birminghamensis strain CDC#1407-AL-14	28083.5	wgs	PATRIC	28083
66792	Legionella birminghamensis strain NCTC12437	28083.7	wgs	PATRIC	28083
67770	Legionella birminghamensis NCTC12437	GCA_900452515	contig		28083

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Diaspora project based on:
Legionella birminghamensis 1407-AL-H
NCBI: GCA_900639775

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	58.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.80	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	96.20	no

Predictions from Diaspora project based on:
Legionella birminghamensis 1407-AL-H
NCBI: GCA_900639775.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.49	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	94.92	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	70.62	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	91.94	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.27	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	62.52	no

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Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Legionella birminghamensis sp. nov. isolated from a cardiac transplant recipient.	Wilkinson HW, Thacker WL, Benson RF, Polt SS, Brookings E, Mayberry WR, Brenner DJ, Gilley RG, Kirklin JK	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.25.11.2120-2122.1987	1987

Straininfo Link

@ref	Straininfo	Culture collections
76208	41995	ATCC 43702, CCUG 31233 A, CIP 103871, JCM 7559, KCTC 12007, NCTC 12437, BCRC 17042, CCRC 17042, DSM 19232

Culture collection no.

Culture collection no.
DSM 19232
ATCC 43702
CIP 103871
CCUG 31233 A
1407-AL-H
JCM 7559
BCRC 17042
KCTC 12007
NCTC 12437

References

#7981	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19232
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#40841	; Curators of the CIP;
#50488	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 31233 A
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#76208	Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID41995.1 )
#116821	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103871
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .

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