Strain identifier
BacDive ID: 6789
Type strain: 
Species: Legionella tunisiensis
Strain Designation: LegM
Strain history: <- A. Campocasso, URMITE, Univ. Méditerranée, Marseille, France; LegM <- M. Boughalmi
NCBI tax ID(s): 1034944 (species)
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General
@ref: 17778
BacDive-ID: 6789
DSM-Number: 24805
keywords: genome sequence, 16S sequence, Bacteria, mesophilic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped
description: Legionella tunisiensis LegM is a mesophilic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from water from a hypersaline lake.
NCBI tax id
- NCBI tax id: 1034944
- Matching level: species
strain history
- @ref: 17778
- history: <- A. Campocasso, URMITE, Univ. Méditerranée, Marseille, France; LegM <- M. Boughalmi
doi: 10.13145/bacdive6789.20230509.8.1
Name and taxonomic classification
LPSN
- @ref: 20215
- description: domain/bacteria
- keyword: phylum/pseudomonadota
- domain: Bacteria
- phylum: Pseudomonadota
- class: Gammaproteobacteria
- order: Legionellales
- family: Legionellaceae
- genus: Legionella
- species: Legionella tunisiensis
- full scientific name: Legionella tunisiensis Campocasso et al. 2012
@ref: 17778
domain: Bacteria
phylum: Proteobacteria
class: Gammaproteobacteria
order: Legionellales
family: Legionellaceae
genus: Legionella
species: Legionella tunisiensis
full scientific name: Legionella tunisiensis Campocasso et al. 2012
strain designation: LegM
type strain: yes
Morphology
cell morphology
- @ref: 30516
- gram stain: negative
- cell length: 1.5 µm
- cell width: 0.54 µm
- cell shape: rod-shaped
colony morphology
- @ref: 17778
- incubation period: 2-3 days
pigmentation
- @ref: 30516
- production: yes
Culture and growth conditions
culture medium
- @ref: 17778
- name: BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)
- growth: yes
- link: https://mediadive.dsmz.de/medium/585
- composition: Name: BCYE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base
culture temp
| @ref | growth | type | temperature | range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17778 | positive | growth | 30 | mesophilic |
| 30516 | positive | growth | 25-37 | mesophilic |
Isolation, sampling and environmental information
isolation
- @ref: 17778
- sample type: water from a hypersaline lake
- geographic location: Lake Sabkha
- country: Tunisia
- origin.country: TUN
- continent: Africa
isolation source categories
| Cat1 | Cat2 | Cat3 |
|---|---|---|
| #Environmental | #Aquatic | #Lake (large) |
| #Condition | #Saline |
taxonmaps
- @ref: 69479
- File name: preview.99_6158.png
- url: https://microbeatlas.org/index.html?action=taxon&taxon_id=90_35;96_696;97_812;98_941;99_6158&stattab=map
- Last taxonomy: Legionella tunisiensis
- 16S sequence: JF779686
- Sequence Identity:
- Total samples: 147
- soil counts: 65
- aquatic counts: 61
- animal counts: 5
- plant counts: 16
Safety information
risk assessment
- @ref: 17778
- biosafety level: 1
- biosafety level comment: Risk group (German classification)
Sequence information
16S sequences
- @ref: 17778
- description: Legionella tunisiensis strain LegM 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence
- accession: JF779686
- length: 1507
- database: ena
- NCBI tax ID: 1034944
Genome sequences
| @ref | description | accession | assembly level | database | NCBI tax ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66792 | Legionella tunisiensis LegM | GCA_000308315 | contig | ncbi | 1034944 |
| 66792 | Legionella tunisiensis LegM | 2551306136 | draft | img | 1034944 |
External links
@ref: 17778
culture collection no.: DSM 24805, CSUR P145
straininfo link
- @ref: 76259
- straininfo: 404181
literature
- topic: Phylogeny
- Pubmed-ID: 22307511
- title: Legionella tunisiensis sp. nov. and Legionella massiliensis sp. nov., isolated from environmental water samples.
- authors: Campocasso A, Boughalmi M, Fournous G, Raoult D, La Scola B
- journal: Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
- DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.037853-0
- year: 2012
- mesh: Amoeba/growth & development, Bacterial Typing Techniques, DNA, Bacterial/genetics, France, Genes, Bacterial, Legionella/*classification/genetics/*isolation & purification, Molecular Sequence Data, *Phylogeny, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Tunisia, *Water Microbiology
- topic2: Genetics
Reference
| @id | authors | catalogue | doi/url | title | ID_cross_reference | pubmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17778 | Curators of the DSMZ | Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSM 24805) | https://www.dsmz.de/collection/catalogue/details/culture/DSM-24805 | |||
| 20215 | Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M. | 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 | List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ | |||
| 30516 | Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N. | 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 | Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information | 26848 | 28776041 | |
| 66792 | Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann | https://diaspora-project.de/progress.html#genomes | Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) | |||
| 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. | https://microbeatlas.org/ | MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta | |||
| 76259 | Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J. | 10.60712/SI-ID404181.1 | StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers |