Brucella melitensis (BCCN 94-74, NCTC 12891)

Name: Brucella melitensis (BCCN 94-74, NCTC 12891)
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BacDive ID 134292

Type strain

Culture col. no. BCCN 94-74 NCTC 12891

NCBI tax ID(s) 520457 120577

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Brucella melitensis BCCN 94-74 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, ovoid-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Skin of porpoise.

Gram-negative ovoid-shaped aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 285847

NCTC 12891

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:09

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Brucellaceae

Genus Brucella

Species Brucella melitensis

Full scientific name Brucella melitensis (Hughes 1893) Meyer and Shaw 1920 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (11)

Brucella inopinata
"Bacterium abortus"
Brucella neotomae
Brucella microti
Brucella abortus
Brucella canis
Brucella vulpis
Brucella ceti
"Streptococcus melitensis"
Brucella suis
Brucella ovis

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Brucella melitensis** (3)	Type strain
143210	B. melitensis CCUG 17765, ATCC 23456, NCTC 10094 (type strain)
143340	B. melitensis CCUG 18579
144831	B. melitensis CCUG 26706

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
32291	negative	1.05 µm	0.6 µm	ovoid-shaped
125438	negative					97.5

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
32291	positive	growth	20-40
32291	positive	optimum	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
32291	positive	optimum	7
32291	positive	growth	6.6-7.4

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

32291

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Observation

32291

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32291	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
32291	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
32291	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
32291	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
32291	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
32291	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32291	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
32291	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
32291	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Aquatic mammal
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Skin, Nail, Hair

Isolation

32291

Sample typeSkin of porpoise

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AM158982 (>99% sequence identity) for Brucellaceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	8164
Soil Samples	8416
Animal Samples	19304
Plant Samples	4266
Total Samples	40150

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Bceti2.0 assembly for Brucella ceti B1/94	contig	GCA_000662035	520457.4	2907475373	520457	3.05

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
32291	Brucella cetaceae partial 16S rRNA gene, strain NCTC 12891	AM158982	1430		120577

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Brucella ceti B1/94
PATRIC: 520457.4

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.50	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.63	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	87.78	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	82.38	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.32	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	50.19	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Combination of in silico and molecular techniques for discrimination and virulence characterization of marine Brucella ceti and Brucella pinnipedialis.	Girault G, Freddi L, Jay M, Perrot L, Dremeau A, Drapeau A, Delannoy S, Fach P, Ferreira Vicente A, Mick V, Ponsart C, Djokic V.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2024.1437408	2024
	Marine Mammal Brucella Reference Strains Are Attenuated in a BALB/c Mouse Model.	Nymo IH, Arias MA, Pardo J, Alvarez MP, Alcaraz A, Godfroid J, Jimenez de Bagues MP.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0150432	2016
	A Simple and Safe Protocol for Preparing Brucella Samples for Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Analysis.	Mesureur J, Ranaldi S, Monnin V, Girard V, Arend S, Welker M, O'Callaghan D, Lavigne JP, Keriel A.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.02730-15	2016
Metabolism	Identification of Brucella by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Fast and reliable identification from agar plates and blood cultures.	Ferreira L, Vega Castano S, Sanchez-Juanes F, Gonzalez-Cabrero S, Menegotto F, Orduna-Domingo A, Gonzalez-Buitrago JM, Munoz-Bellido JL.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0014235	2010
Phylogeny	Novel IS711-specific chromosomal locations useful for identification and classification of marine mammal Brucella strains.	Zygmunt MS, Maquart M, Bernardet N, Doublet B, Cloeckaert A.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.01069-10	2010
Genetics	Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria.	Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468	2020
Genetics	Draft Genome Sequences of Brucella suis Biovar 4 Strain NCTC 10385, Brucella ceti Strain NCTC 12891T, Brucella inopinata Strain CAMP 6436T, and Brucella neotomae Strain ATCC 23459T.	Wahab T, Ferrari S, Lindberg M, Backman S, Kaden R	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00783-14	2014
Phylogeny	Brucella ceti sp. nov. and Brucella pinnipedialis sp. nov. for Brucella strains with cetaceans and seals as their preferred hosts.	Foster G, Osterman BS, Godfroid J, Jacques I, Cloeckaert A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65269-0	2007

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 )
#28531	IJSEM 2688 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65269-0 , PubMed 17978241 )
#32291	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 #28531
#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) .
#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 )
#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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Brucella melitensis (BCCN 94-74, NCTC 12891)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000662035

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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