Bacteroides fragilis (CIP 108284, 638R)

Name: Bacteroides fragilis (CIP 108284, 638R)
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BacDive ID 136938

Type strain

Strain Designation 638R

Culture col. no. CIP 108284 638R

NCBI tax ID(s) 817

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Bacteroides fragilis 638R is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote of the family Bacteroidaceae.

Gram-negative rod-shaped anaerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 361792

CIP 108284

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:02:41

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Bacteroidia

Order Bacteroidales

Family Bacteroidaceae

Genus Bacteroides

Species Bacteroides fragilis

Full scientific name Bacteroides fragilis (Veillon and Zuber 1898) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (3)

"Bacteroides hominis"
"Bacillus fragilis"
Bacteroides hominis

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Bacteroides fragilis** (28)	Type strain
1585	B. fragilis EN-2, Onslow, DSM 2151, ATCC 25285, JCM 11019, ... (type strain)
1584	B. fragilis LRA 048 07 85, CCUG 25931, DSM 1396, ATCC ...
1586	B. fragilis mprl 1839, MPRL 1839/MH3, DSM 9668
1587	B. fragilis mprl 1842, DSM 9669
1589	B. fragilis mprl 1843, DSM 9671
134478	B. fragilis HSP 40, CIP 104785, ATCC 51477, JCM 11017
136722	B. fragilis CIP pIP417
136849	B. fragilis CIP pIP419
136850	B. fragilis CIP pIP421
137572	B. fragilis BF8, CIP 108277
138258	B. fragilis 10010, CIP 105891, ATCC 43858
138259	B. fragilis CIP 105892, ATCC 43859
147853	B. fragilis CCUG 34384
147901	B. fragilis CCUG 34457
148540	B. fragilis CCUG 35615
148584	B. fragilis CCUG 35671
149129	B. fragilis CCUG 36902
149142	B. fragilis CCUG 36926
149442	B. fragilis CCUG 37758
153390	B. fragilis CCUG 49424
154543	B. fragilis CCUG 54315
158881	B. fragilis COR2-248-WT-1, DSM 103087
159983	B. fragilis 638R/pIP417(nimA), DSM 103646
159984	B. fragilis BF8, DSM 103647
162044	B. fragilis JCM 17585
162045	B. fragilis JCM 17586
162046	B. fragilis JCM 17587
174360	B. fragilis HM-216, 2/1/56, DSM 24895

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
36714	negative	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

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Hemolysis ability1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
36714	MEDIUM 20 - for Anaerobic bacteria		Agar (15.000 g);Glucose (5.000 g);Yeast extract (20.000 g);Tryptone (30.000 g);Cysteine hydrochloride (0.500 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml);Hemin solution -M00149 (25.000 ml)
36714	CIP Medium 20			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
36714	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

36714

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
36714	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
36714	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	+	3.2.1.31	from API zym
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
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
36714	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
36714	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
36714	Chigaco	USA	USA	North America
36714	Chicago, Illinois	United States of America	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
36714	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 )
#36714	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108284
#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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