Name: Rhodococcus erythropolis EK5
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 10862

Type strain:

Species: Rhodococcus erythropolis

Strain Designation: EK5

Culture col. no.: DSM 12789

Strain history: <- E. Katsivela, GBF; EK5

NCBI tax ID(s): 1833 (species)

SI-ID 49360

DSM 12789

Other strains from Rhodococcus erythropolis

Section

Rhodococcus erythropolis EK5 is a mesophilic human pathogen that was isolated from water of river Elbe.

human pathogen
mesophilic
16S sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Genus	*Rhodococcus*
	Species	**Rhodococcus erythropolis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Rhodococcus erythropolis (Gray and Thornton 1928) Goodfellow and Alderson 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

	Synonym	"Mycobacterium* erythropolis"*
	Synonym	Rhodococcus qingshengii
	Synonym	Rhodococcus baikonurensis
	Synonym	Rhodococcus jialingiae
	Synonym	Rhodococcus enclensis
	Synonym	Rhodococcus degradans

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #4821]

Culture medium

LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 381)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #4821]			growth	25 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #4821]	Sample type/isolated from	water of river Elbe
[Ref.: #4821]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	river Elbe
[Ref.: #4821]	Country	Germany
[Ref.: #4821]	Country ISO 3 Code	DEU
[Ref.: #4821]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental

#Aquatic

#River (Creek)

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ237967 (>99% sequence identity) for Nocardiaceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	6494
Soil Samples	7777
Animal Samples	11681
Plant Samples	2835
Total Samples	28787

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #4821]	Pathogenicity (human)	yes, in single cases
[Ref.: #4821]	Biosafety level	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #4821]	Rhodococcus erythropolis 16S rRNA gene, isolate EK5	AJ237967	1460	ENA	1833 tax ID

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 12789

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SI-ID 49360

References

#4821

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12789

#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 )

#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 .

#80118

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-ID49360.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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