Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica (DSM 100374, 78876, 100374)

Name: Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica (DSM 100374, 78876, 100374)
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BacDive ID 132879

Type strain

Strain Designation 78876, 100374

Culture col. no. DSM 100374 78876 100374

NCBI tax ID(s) 400946

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Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica 78876 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from diabetic foot.

mesophilic genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 399641

DSM 100374

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:37

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Cardiobacteriales

Family Ignatzschineriaceae

Genus Wohlfahrtiimonas

Species Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica

Full scientific name Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica Tóth et al. 2008

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica** (20)	Type strain
17623	W. chitiniclastica S5, DSM 18708, CCM 7401, CCUG 57199 (type strain)
132880	W. chitiniclastica 81198, DSM 100375
132881	W. chitiniclastica 574535/2, DSM 100676
132882	W. chitiniclastica 575028, DSM 100917
146468	W. chitiniclastica CCUG 31236, LMG 15545
146469	W. chitiniclastica CCUG 31237, LMG 15546
169612	W. chitiniclastica 105708, DSM 105708
169613	W. chitiniclastica 105712, DSM 105712
169614	W. chitiniclastica 105838, DSM 105838
169615	W. chitiniclastica 105839, DSM 105839
169616	W. chitiniclastica 105984, DSM 105984
169617	W. chitiniclastica 108045, DSM 108045
169618	W. chitiniclastica 108048, DSM 108048
169619	W. chitiniclastica 110179, DSM 110179
169620	W. chitiniclastica 110473, DSM 110473
175275	W. chitiniclastica Dres_Wch_18, DSM 106597
175276	W. chitiniclastica 113046, DSM 113046
175277	W. chitiniclastica 113047, DSM 113047
175278	W. chitiniclastica 113615, DSM 113615
175279	W. chitiniclastica 113679, DSM 113679

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	97.5

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
24667	BHI MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 215)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BHI MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 215) Composition: Brain heart infusion 37.0 g/l Distilled water
24667	COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693) Composition: Defibrinated sheep blood 50.0 g/l Columbia agar base
24667	TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
24667	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	97.5

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		94.248

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68369	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20NE
68369	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API 20NE
68369	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20NE
68369	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20NE

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API 20NE

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68369	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
68369	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API 20NE
68369	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1	from API 20NE
68369	gelatinase	-		from API 20NE
68369	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20NE

API 20NE

@ref	Reduction of nitratesNO3	TRP	GLU_ Ferm	ADH (Arg)	URE	ESC	GEL	PNPG	GLU_ Assim	ARA	MNE	MAN	NAG	MAL	GNT	CAP	ADI	MLT	CIT	PAC	OX
24667	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1
#Infection
#Host Body-Site

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
24667	diabetic foot	Dresden	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24667	yes, in single cases	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1841592v1 assembly for Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica DSM 100374	contig	GCA_018415925	400946.26	400946	71.46

Genome browser: GCA_018415925

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica DSM 100374
NCBI: GCA_018415925

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	72.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	67.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	76.40	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	97.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica strain DSM 100374
PATRIC: 400946.26

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	93.89	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	94.25	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	61.67	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.06	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	71.01	no

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
The zoonotic pathogen Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica - current findings from a clinical and genomic perspective.	Kopf A, Bunk B, Riedel T, Schrottner P.	BMC Microbiol	10.1186/s12866-023-03139-7	2024
Identification and Antibiotic Profiling of Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica, an Underestimated Human Pathogen.	Kopf A, Bunk B, Coldewey SM, Gunzer F, Riedel T, Schrottner P.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2021.712775	2021
Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Human Pathogen Wohlfahrtiimonas Chitiniclastica Provides Insight Into the Identification of Antimicrobial Resistance Genotypes and Potential Virulence Traits.	Kopf A, Bunk B, Coldewey SM, Gunzer F, Riedel T, Schrottner P.	Front Cell Infect Microbiol	10.3389/fcimb.2022.912427	2022
Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica: current insights into an emerging human pathogen.	Schrottner P, Rudolph WW, Damme U, Lotz C, Jacobs E, Gunzer F.	Epidemiol Infect	10.1017/s0950268816003411	2017

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 )
#24667	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 100374
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica (DSM 100374, 78876, 100374)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API 20NE

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_018415925

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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