Kurthia zopfii (CIP 55.79, NCIMB 8603)

Name: Kurthia zopfii (CIP 55.79, NCIMB 8603)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 136946

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 55.79 NCIMB 8603

NCBI tax ID(s) 1650

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1955, NCIB <- Div. Bact. Dairy Research, Ottawa, Canada: strain DB 113, Bacterium zenkeri

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Kurthia zopfii CIP 55.79 is a bacterium that was isolated from Other, Milking machine.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 8773

LMG 17156,CCM 3321,NCIMB 8603,NCIB 8603,VKM B-1569,CIP 55.79,NCIM 2354

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:46

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Caryophanaceae

Genus Kurthia

Species Kurthia zopfii

Full scientific name Kurthia zopfii (Kurth 1883) Trevisan 1885 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

"Bacterium zopfii"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Kurthia zopfii** (6)	Type strain
11954	K. zopfii F 64/100, EF 64/100, DSM 20580, ATCC 33403, ... (type strain)
11953	K. zopfii DSM 20487, ATCC 6900, NCTC 405
138961	K. zopfii CIP 76.21
141215	K. zopfii CCUG 220, ATCC 10538, NCTC 404
165342	K. zopfii JCM 6102
165343	K. zopfii JCM 6103

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
36728	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar		Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
36728	CIP Medium 3			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
36728	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
36728	Other, Milking machine	Canada	CAN	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
36728	1	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 )
#36728	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 55.79
#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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