Name: Tsukamurella hongkongensis HKU53
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 131577

Type strain:

Species: Tsukamurella hongkongensis

Strain Designation: HKU53

Culture col. no.: DSM 100209, JCM 30716

Strain history: J. L. L. Teng; Dept. of Microbiol., Univ. of Hong Kong, China; HKU53.

NCBI tax ID(s): 1671023 (species)

SI-ID 405190

DSM 100209

Other strains from Tsukamurella hongkongensis

T. hongkongensis HKU52, DSM 100208, JCM 30715 (type strain)

Section

Tsukamurella hongkongensis HKU53 is a mesophilic human pathogen that was isolated from human clinical sample, blood culture of a patient with catheter-related bacteraemia.

human pathogen
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Actinomycetota*
	Class	*Actinomycetes*
	Order	*Mycobacteriales*
	Family	*Tsukamurellaceae*
	Genus	*Tsukamurella*
	Species	**Tsukamurella hongkongensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Tsukamurella hongkongensis Teng et al. 2016

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

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Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535)

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Culture medium composition

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #22804]			growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	37 °C

[Ref.: #22804]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

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

[Ref.: #22804]	Sample type/isolated from	human clinical sample, blood culture of a patient with catheter-related bacteraemia
[Ref.: #22804]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Queen Mary Hospital
[Ref.: #22804]	Country	Hong Kong
[Ref.: #22804]	Country ISO 3 Code	HKG
[Ref.: #22804]	Continent	Asia

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Blood culture of a patient with catheter-related bacteraemia
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Hong Kong
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	China
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	CHN
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Infection	#Disease	-
#Infection	#Medical device	#Catheter
#Infection	#Patient	#Blood culture
#Host	#Human	-

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Global distribution of 16S sequence KP888573 (>99% sequence identity) for Tsukamurella from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2978
Soil Samples	3431
Animal Samples	5160
Plant Samples	790
Total Samples	12359

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

[Ref.: #22804]	Pathogenicity (human)	yes, in single cases
[Ref.: #22804]	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.: #22804]	Tsukamurella hongkongensis strain HKU53 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KP888573	1405	ENA	1671023 tax ID

[Ref.: #22804]	GC-content	71.2 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	68.9-73.5 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 100209, JCM 30716

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SI-ID 405190

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Tsukamurella hongkongensis sp. nov. and Tsukamurella sinensis sp. nov., isolated from patients with keratitis, catheter-related bacteraemia and conjunctivitis.	Teng JLL, Tang Y, Wong SSY, Ngan AHY, Huang Y, Tsang CC, Choi GKY, Lau SKP, Woo PCY	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000733	2015	*

References

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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 )

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 100209

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

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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 .

#89983

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-ID405190.1 )

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