Name: Rhodococcus erythropolis A 20-17
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 10869

Type strain:

Species: Rhodococcus erythropolis

Strain Designation: A 20-17, Schering 254

Culture col. no.: DSM 43288, ATCC 14559

Strain history: <- K. Kieslich, Schering 254, (Nocardia sp.) <- ATCC <- J. Brown, A 20-17

NCBI tax ID(s): 1833 (species)

SI-ID 36108

ATCC 14559, DSM 43288

Special Collections

DSMZ

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Section

Rhodococcus erythropolis A 20-17 is a human pathogen that was isolated from sand.

human pathogen

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

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Culture medium

GYM STREPTOMYCES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 65)

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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.: #10930]			growth	28 °C

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

[Ref.: #10930]	Sample type/isolated from	sand
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental

#Terrestrial

#Sandy

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

[Ref.: #10930]	Pathogenicity (human)	yes, in single cases
[Ref.: #10930]	Biosafety level	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 43288, ATCC 14559

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SI-ID 36108

References

#10930

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 43288

#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 )

#80125

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-ID36108.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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