Legionella saoudiensis (LS-1, DSM 101682, CSUR P2101)

Name: Legionella saoudiensis (LS-1, DSM 101682, CSUR P2101)
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BacDive ID 133211

Type strain

Strain Designation LS-1

Culture col. no. LS-1 DSM 101682 CSUR P2101

NCBI tax ID(s) 1750561

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- S. Khelaifia, Federation de bacteriologie et virologie hygiene hospitaliere, Hopital de la Timone, Marseille; LS-1

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Legionella saoudiensis LS-1 is a Gram-negative, motile bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from sewage sample.

Gram-negative motile colony-forming genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407549

DSM 101682,CCUG 75671T

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:02

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella saoudiensis

Full scientific name Legionella saoudiensis Bajrai et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Confidence
25004	negative	0.87 µm	0.61 µm
125439	negative			98.741
125438	negative			98.979

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
25004	0.8 mm	bluish	circular	BCYE agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
68994	BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base
25004	BCYE agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
25004	positive	optimum	32
68994	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	98.103

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.917

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
25004	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
25004	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
25004	gelatinase	-
25004	hippurate hydrolase	-	3.5.1.32

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Waste	#Sewage sludge

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
25004	sewage sample	Jeddah in the western region of Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	SAU	Asia
68994	water from a sewage filtration plant	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	SAU	Asia	21.5333	39.1667 21.5333/39.1667

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LN899829 (>99% sequence identity) for Legionella saoudiensis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	303
Soil Samples	246
Animal Samples	185
Plant Samples	81
Total Samples	815

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
68994	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Legionella saoudiensis assembly for Legionella saoudiensis LS-1	scaffold	GCA_001465875	2775507058	1750561	75.94

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
25004	Legionella sp. LH-SW partial 16S rRNA gene, strain LH-SWC	LN899829

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
25004	39.42
68994	39.42	sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Legionella saoudiensis assembly for Legionella saoudiensis LS-1
NCBI: GCA_001465875

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.10	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.74	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.92	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	51.54	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Legionella saoudiensis LS-1
NCBI: GCA_001465875.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.98	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.58	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	56.64	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.64	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.33	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	62.77	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Legionella saoudiensis sp. nov., isolated from a sewage water sample.	Bajrai LH, Azhar EI, Yasir M, Jardot P, Barrassi L, Raoult D, La Scola B, Pagnier I	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001357	2016

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 )
#25004	L. H. A. Bajrai, E. I.,Yasir, M.,Jardot, P.,Barrassi, L.,Raoult, D.,La Scola, B.,Pagnier, I.: Legionella saoudiensis sp. nov., isolated from a sewage water sample. IJSEM 66: 4367 - 4371 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001357 , PubMed 27489234 )
#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) .
#68994	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 101682
#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 .
#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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Legionella saoudiensis (LS-1, DSM 101682, CSUR P2101)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001465875

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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