Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 584)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 584)
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BacDive ID 112

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 584

NCBI tax ID(s) 920

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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans DSM 584 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from coal mine effluent.

mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47229

DSM 584

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:46:47

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Acidithiobacillia

Order Acidithiobacillales

Family Acidithiobacillaceae

Genus Acidithiobacillus

Species Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans

Full scientific name Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (Temple and Colmer 1951) Kelly and Wood 2000

Synonyms (1)

Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans** (13)	Type strain
118	A. ferrooxidans TM, DSM 14882, ATCC 23270, NCIMB 8455 (type strain)
111	A. ferrooxidans DSM 583
113	A. ferrooxidans DSM 585
114	A. ferrooxidans F221, DSM 1927
115	A. ferrooxidans N-Fe3, DSM 9464
116	A. ferrooxidans NFe-4, DSM 9465
117	A. ferrooxidans Tf18, DSM 11477
120	A. ferrooxidans SP5/1, DSM 24419, JCM 39165
130137	A. ferrooxidans R1, DSM 29444
162005	A. ferrooxidans JCM 17309
164860	A. ferrooxidans JCM 3863, ATCC 19859, BCRC 13033, NCIMB 9490
164861	A. ferrooxidans JCM 3865
165617	A. ferrooxidans JCM 7812

Morphology

Colony morphology

301

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
301	ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 71)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 71) Composition: Na2S2O3 x 5 H2O 5.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 3.0 g/l KH2PO4 3.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.25 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
301	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Waste	#Industrial wastewater
#Engineered	#Other	#Mine

Isolation

301

Sample typecoal mine effluent

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
301	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#301	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 584
#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 )
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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