Campylobacter fetus (CIP 54.37, Christ 254)

Name: Campylobacter fetus (CIP 54.37, Christ 254)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 136438

Type strain

Strain Designation Christ 254

Culture col. no. CIP 54.37 Christ 254

NCBI tax ID(s) 196

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1954, Lab. Ident. Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain Christ 254 CIP <- 1954, Lab. Ident. Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain Christ 254

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Campylobacter fetus Christ 254 is a microaerophile, Gram-negative, motile bacterium of the family Campylobacteraceae.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped microaerophile Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 67700

CIP 54.37

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:47

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Epsilonproteobacteria

Order Campylobacterales

Family Campylobacteraceae

Genus Campylobacter

Species Campylobacter fetus

Full scientific name Campylobacter fetus (Smith and Taylor 1919) Sebald and Véron 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

"Vibrio fetus"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Campylobacter fetus** (65)	Type strain
134416	C. fetus CIP 54.11, RB 2
134622	C. fetus 922, CIP 69.43
134747	C. fetus Lebeau, CIP 58.67
134817	C. fetus 2137/2, CIP 69.44
134896	C. fetus 720.86, CIP 102710
135268	C. fetus Ab71, CIP 68.24
135353	C. fetus 2978162, CIP 103992
135540	C. fetus VB, CIP 53.92
135544	C. fetus 661 brebis, CIP 53.93
135656	C. fetus CIP 68.23
135726	C. fetus CIP 55.15
135913	C. fetus L, CIP 54.28, ATCC 10624
136138	C. fetus 26.87, CIP 102778
136246	C. fetus 92-1, CIP 103955
136280	C. fetus CIP 53.94, NCTC 1896
136306	C. fetus Milton, CIP 53.95, NCTC 5850
137051	C. fetus Viain, CIP 57.21
137067	C. fetus Am, CIP 53.104
137511	C. fetus 7572, CIP 68.8
137531	C. fetus Durdeaux, CIP 70.84
137532	C. fetus Thoine, CIP 70.85, CCUG 7473
137605	C. fetus BAC, 471-79, CIP 80.8
137631	C. fetus 534.86, CIP 102581
137695	C. fetus 699.85, CIP 101847
137740	C. fetus 738.83, CIP 100410
137741	C. fetus 736.83, CIP 100411
137781	C. fetus 664.85, CIP 101811
137863	C. fetus 905.85, CIP 101955
138054	C. fetus 624-86, CIP 102621
138243	C. fetus 9664753, CIP 105787
138600	C. fetus CIP 101714
138726	C. fetus 13.83, CIP 100006
138833	C. fetus CIP 56.88
139035	C. fetus Lixon, CIP 57.1
139590	C. fetus Legars, CIP A168, CCUG 11286
142096	C. fetus CCUG 10770, NCTC 10348
142613	C. fetus CCUG 13315
142614	C. fetus CCUG 13316
142615	C. fetus CCUG 13317
142616	C. fetus CCUG 13318
143191	C. fetus CCUG 17693, LMG 6569
143192	C. fetus CCUG 17694, LMG 6571
143193	C. fetus CCUG 17695 A, LMG 6628t1, LMG 6727
143239	C. fetus CCUG 17986
143250	C. fetus CCUG 18035
144444	C. fetus CCUG 24982
145333	C. fetus CCUG 28206
145803	C. fetus CCUG 29637
145970	C. fetus CCUG 30043
146207	C. fetus CCUG 30605
146783	C. fetus CCUG 32114
147033	C. fetus CCUG 32676
147034	C. fetus CCUG 32677
147482	C. fetus CCUG 33671
147514	C. fetus CCUG 33720
148193	C. fetus CCUG 35018
148280	C. fetus CCUG 35147, ACCC 5/4101
148811	C. fetus CCUG 35971
150449	C. fetus CCUG 39963
150476	C. fetus CCUG 41395
150535	C. fetus CCUG 41521
150779	C. fetus CCUG 42302
151028	C. fetus CCUG 43084
151750	C. fetus CCUG 44789
153775	C. fetus CCUG 50940

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
35857	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
35857	MEDIUM 6 - Columbia agar with 10 % horse blood		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Columbia agar (39.000 g);Horseblood (100.000 ml)
35857	CIP Medium 6			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
35857	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

35857

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
35857	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
35857	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	+	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
35857	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
68382	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
35857	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	-		from API zym
35857	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
35857	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
35857	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
35857		France	FRA	Europe
35857	Blood	France	FRA	Europe	1954

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
35857	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 )
#35857	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 54.37
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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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