Rhodococcus equi (CIP 74.35, 304-74)

Name: Rhodococcus equi (CIP 74.35, 304-74)
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BacDive ID 134837

Type strain

Strain Designation 304-74

Culture col. no. CIP 74.35 304-74

NCBI tax ID(s) 43767

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1974, Lab. Ident. Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain 304-74, Corynebacterium equi <- Lab. Dept. Hyg., Caen, France

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Rhodococcus equi 304-74 is a bacterium of the family Nocardiaceae.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 69889

CIP 74.35

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:17

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Nocardiaceae

Genus Rhodococcus

Species Rhodococcus equi

Full scientific name Rhodococcus equi (Magnusson 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (6)

Prescottella equi
Corynebacterium equi
Nocardia restricta
"Prescottia equi"
"Prescottella equi"
"Proactinomyces restrictus"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Rhodococcus equi** (11)	Type strain
135024	R. equi 165-87, CIP 102900
135118	R. equi 787-80, CIP 104292
136089	R. equi 3158, 413-86, CIP 102409
136114	R. equi CIP 102613
137484	R. equi 16.111, CIP 58.70
137485	R. equi 16449, CIP 58.71
137593	R. equi Cattin, 219-79, CIP 79.36
137851	R. equi CIP 101849
137971	R. equi CIP 102374
138861	R. equi 6600, CIP 58.69
172710	R. equi GK1, CIP 105335

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
33493	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar		Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
33493	CIP Medium 3			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
33493	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
33493		Caen	France	FRA	Europe
33493	Animal, Foal, lung abscess	Caen	France	FRA	Europe	1974

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
33493	2	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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 )
#33493	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 74.35
#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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