General

@ref: 119208

BacDive-ID: 172752

keywords: Bacteria

description: Enterococcus faecalis BM4391 is a bacterium of the family Enterococcaceae.

NCBI tax id

• NCBI tax id: 1351
• Matching level: species

strain history

• @ref: 119208
• history: CIP <- 2016, P. Courvalin, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain BM4391 <- H. Fraimow, Graduate Hosp., Philadelphia, USA: strain VTD1

doi: 10.13145/bacdive172752.20240510.9

Name and taxonomic classification

LPSN

• @ref: 20215
• description: domain/bacteria
• keyword: phylum/bacillota
• domain: Bacteria
• phylum: Bacillota
• class: Bacilli
• order: Lactobacillales
• family: Enterococcaceae
• genus: Enterococcus
• species: Enterococcus faecalis
• full scientific name: Enterococcus faecalis (Andrewes and Horder 1906) Schleifer and Kilpper-Bälz 1984

• synonyms

  • @ref: 20215
  • synonym: Streptococcus faecalis

@ref: 119208

domain: Bacteria

phylum: Bacillota

class: Bacilli

order: Lactobacillales

family: Enterococcaceae

genus: Enterococcus

species: Enterococcus faecalis

strain designation: BM4391, VTD1

type strain: no

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

isolation

• @ref: 119208
• geographic location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• country: United States of America
• origin.country: USA
• continent: North America
• isolation date: 1997-01-02

Safety information

risk assessment

• @ref: 119208
• biosafety level: 2
• biosafety level comment: Risk group (French classification)

External links

@ref: 119208

culture collection no.: CIP 111149

Reference