Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 11477, Tf18)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 11477, Tf18)
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BacDive ID 117

Type strain

Strain Designation Tf18

Culture col. no. DSM 11477 Tf18

NCBI tax ID(s) 920

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- E. Donati, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Fermentaciones Industriales (CINDEFI), La Plata, Argentina; Tf18 <- Univ. Federal Ouro Preto, Minais Gerais, Brazil; <- C. Aguirre;

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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Tf18 is a bacterium that was isolated from mine drainage water.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49117

DSM 11477,VTT E-991375

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:24:57

Domain Bacteria

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
112	A. ferrooxidans DSM 584
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
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

4380

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4380	ACIDITHIOBACILLUS (APH) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 271)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDITHIOBACILLUS (APH) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 271) Composition: FeSO4 x 7 H2O 8.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 2.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l KCl 0.1 g/l Ca(NO3)2 x 4 H2O 0.02 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4380	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4380	mine drainage water	Santa Rosa de Arequipa	Peru	PER	Middle and South America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4380	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Influence of Extremophiles on the Generation of Acid Mine Drainage at the Abandoned Pan de Azúcar Mine (Argentina).	Plaza-Cazon J, Benitez L, Murray J, Kirschbaum P, Donati E.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms9020281	2021

References

#4380	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11477
#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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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 11477, Tf18)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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