Tsukamurella hongkongensis (DSM 100209, JCM 30716, HKU53)

Name: Tsukamurella hongkongensis (DSM 100209, JCM 30716, HKU53)
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BacDive ID 131577

Type strain

Strain Designation HKU53

Culture col. no. DSM 100209 JCM 30716 HKU53

NCBI tax ID(s) 1671023

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- J. L. L. Teng, University of Hong Kong; HKU53 JCM <-- J. L. L. Teng; Dept. of Microbiol., Univ. of Hong Kong, China; HKU53.

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

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 405190

JCM 30716,DSM 100209

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:37:39

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Tsukamurellaceae

Genus Tsukamurella

Species Tsukamurella hongkongensis

Full scientific name Tsukamurella hongkongensis Teng et al. 2016

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Tsukamurella hongkongensis** (1)	Type strain
131576	T. hongkongensis HKU52, DSM 100208, JCM 30715 (type strain)

Morphology

Multimedia

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caption:	Medium 535a 37°C
intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
22804	TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
22804	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Infection	#Disease	-
#Infection	#Medical device	#Catheter
#Infection	#Patient	#Blood culture
#Host	#Human	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
22804	human clinical sample, blood culture of a patient with catheter-related bacteraemia	Homo sapiens	Queen Mary Hospital	Hong Kong	HKG	Asia
67770	Blood culture of a patient with catheter-related bacteraemia	Homo sapiens	Hong Kong	China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

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

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
22804	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
22804	Tsukamurella hongkongensis strain HKU53 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KP888573	1405		1671023
124043	Tsukamurella hongkongensis strain HKU 53 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	KX924571	1221		1671023

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
22804	71.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
67770	68.9-73.5	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

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

#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 )
#22804	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;
#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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Tsukamurella hongkongensis (DSM 100209, JCM 30716, HKU53)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

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Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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