Filifactor villosus (DSM 1645, ATCC 33388, NCTC 11220)

Name: Filifactor villosus (DSM 1645, ATCC 33388, NCTC 11220)
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BacDive ID 11842

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 1645 ATCC 33388 NCTC 11220 CCUG 46385 VPB 3349

NCBI tax ID(s) 29374

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG

History <- D. N. Love, Sidney University, Department of Veterinary Pathology, New South Wales, Australia; VPB 3349 <- D. N. Love {1978}

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Filifactor villosus DSM 1645 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from subcutaneous fight wound abscess of cat.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 45955

ATCC 33388,NCTC 11220,DSM 1645,CCUG 46385,BCRC 14531,CCRC 14531

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:20:40

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Peptostreptococcales

Family Peptostreptococcaceae

Genus Filifactor

Species Filifactor villosus

Full scientific name Filifactor villosus (Love et al. 1979) Collins et al. 1994

Synonyms (1)

Clostridium villosum

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Filifactor villosus** (1)	Type strain
155316	F. villosus CCUG 57309

Morphology

Colony morphology

57181

Incubation period3 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
612	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l D-Glucose 4.0 g/l Starch 1.0 g/l Maltose 1.0 g/l Cellobiose 1.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Ethanol 0.19 g/l Vitamin K3 0.05 g/l Hemin 0.005 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Vitamin K1 NaOH Distilled water
612	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 78)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 78) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Ethanol 9.5 g/l (optional) K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Haemin 0.005 g/l (optional) Resazurin 0.001 g/l Vitamin K3 0.0005 g/l (optional) Vitamin K1 (optional) NaOH (optional) Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
612	positive	growth	37
57181	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
612	anaerobe
57181	anaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Felidae (Cat)
#Host Body-Site	#Other	#Abscess
#Host Body-Site	#Other	#Wound
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Skin, Nail, Hair

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
612	subcutaneous fight wound abscess of cat
57181	Feline subcutaneous abscess	Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF537211 (>99% sequence identity) for Filifactor villosus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	11
Soil Samples	8
Animal Samples	1497
Plant Samples	3
Total Samples	1519

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
612	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM4265296v1 assembly for Filifactor villosus CCUG 46385	scaffold	GCA_042652965	29374	60.51

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Filifactor villosus 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM 1645	X73452	1514		29374
612	Filifactor villosus strain DSM1645 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF537211	1450		29374

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Phylogenetic analysis of Fusobacterium alocis and Fusobacterium sulci based on 16S rRNA gene sequences: proposal of Filifactor alocis (Cato, Moore and Moore) comb. nov. and Eubacterium sulci (Cato, Moore and Moore) comb. nov.	Jalava J, Eerola E	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-49-4-1375	1999

References

#612	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1645
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#57181	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 46385
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Filifactor villosus (DSM 1645, ATCC 33388, NCTC 11220)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_042652965

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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