Legionella steelei (IMVS 3113, ATCC BAA-2169, IMVS-3376)

Name: Legionella steelei (IMVS 3113, ATCC BAA-2169, IMVS-3376)
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BacDive ID 133759

Type strain

Strain Designation IMVS-3376

Culture col. no. IMVS 3113 ATCC BAA-2169 IMVS-3376

NCBI tax ID(s) 947033

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Legionella steelei IMVS-3376 is a mesophilic, Gram-negative, motile prokaryote that was isolated from Human - respiratory.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 27883

ATCC BAA-2169

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:52

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella steelei

Full scientific name Legionella steelei Edelstein et al. 2012

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
30421	negative	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

30421

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
30421	positive	optimum	35	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
30421	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
30421	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
30421	gelatinase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Host	#Human
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways

Isolation

30421

Sample typeHuman - respiratory

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence HQ398202 (>99% sequence identity) for Legionella steelei from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	99
Soil Samples	83
Animal Samples	57
Plant Samples	13
Total Samples	252

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Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
30421	Legionella steelei strain IMVS-3376 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	HQ398202	1362		947033

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Legionella steelei sp. nov., isolated from human respiratory specimens in California, USA, and South Australia.	Edelstein PH, Edelstein MA, Shephard LJ, Ward KW, Ratcliff RM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.035709-0	2011

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 )
#30421	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26757 (see below)
#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 .
#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 steelei (IMVS 3113, ATCC BAA-2169, IMVS-3376)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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