Clostridioides difficile (CIP 109238)

Name: Clostridioides difficile (CIP 109238)
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BacDive ID 137137

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 109238

NCBI tax ID(s) 1496

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Clostridioides difficile CIP 109238 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote of the family Peptostreptococcaceae.

Gram-positive motile rod-shaped anaerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 361809

CIP 109238

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:02:44

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Peptostreptococcales

Family Peptostreptococcaceae

Genus Clostridioides

Species Clostridioides difficile

Full scientific name Clostridioides difficile (Hall and O'Toole 1935) Lawson et al. 2016

Synonyms (3)

"Peptoclostridium difficile"
"Bacillus difficilis"
Clostridium difficile

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Clostridioides difficile** (81)	Type strain
2582	C. difficile 1780, McClung 1780, 90556-M6S, 10008, DSM ... (type strain)
2583	C. difficile AA1, DSM 12056
2584	C. difficile A90, DSM 12057
22963	C. difficile R20291, DSM 27147, NCTC 13366
23853	C. difficile 630, DSM 27543, ATCC BAA-1382, NCTC 13307
23854	C. difficile 1470, DSM 27544, ATCC 43598, NCTC 13569, ...
23855	C. difficile 630 Delta erm, DSM 28645
134676	C. difficile CD196, CIP 107932
134703	C. difficile CIP 109239
135237	C. difficile W 1194, CIP 104903, ATCC 43594, CCUG 37779
135760	C. difficile CIP 110322
137139	C. difficile CIP 109240, ATCC 43255, CCUG 19126, VPI 10463
138126	C. difficile 2149, CIP 104905, ATCC 43600, CCUG 37784
138128	C. difficile 545, CIP 104904, ATCC 43596, CCUG 37766
141963	C. difficile CCUG 8884
141965	C. difficile CCUG 9004
141966	C. difficile CCUG 9018
143578	C. difficile CCUG 20309
143948	C. difficile CCUG 22019
143949	C. difficile CCUG 22020
143950	C. difficile CCUG 22023
145666	C. difficile CCUG 29183
148544	C. difficile CCUG 35620
149446	C. difficile CCUG 37767
149447	C. difficile CCUG 37768
149448	C. difficile CCUG 37769
149449	C. difficile CCUG 37770
149450	C. difficile CCUG 37771
149451	C. difficile CCUG 37772
149452	C. difficile CCUG 37773
149453	C. difficile CCUG 37774
149454	C. difficile CCUG 37775
149455	C. difficile CCUG 37776
149456	C. difficile CCUG 37777
149457	C. difficile CCUG 37778
149458	C. difficile CCUG 37780, ATCC 43593
149459	C. difficile CCUG 37781, ATCC 43597
149460	C. difficile CCUG 37783, ATCC 43599
149461	C. difficile CCUG 37785, ATCC 43601
149462	C. difficile CCUG 37787, ATCC 43603
149536	C. difficile CCUG 37922
151958	C. difficile CCUG 45344
151959	C. difficile CCUG 45345
152338	C. difficile CCUG 46468
152339	C. difficile CCUG 46469
152340	C. difficile CCUG 46470
154467	C. difficile CCUG 53741
154468	C. difficile CCUG 53742
154474	C. difficile CCUG 53749
154520	C. difficile CCUG 54206
156075	C. difficile CCUG 60275, LBM 08.01.040
156076	C. difficile CCUG 60276, LBM 08.01.058
156768	C. difficile CCUG 64977
156771	C. difficile CCUG 65028
157662	C. difficile 4167/2013 1, DSM 27638
157663	C. difficile 4167/2013 2, DSM 27639
157664	C. difficile 4167/2013 3, DSM 27640
157665	C. difficile SC037-01-01, 6551/2013, DSM 28196
157666	C. difficile SC052-01-01, DSM 29688
157667	C. difficile SC009-01-01, DSM 29745
157668	C. difficile SC052-02-01, DSM 29747
157669	C. difficile CD-16-113, D/6474/2015, DSM 102978
157670	C. difficile 3525/15, Goe-91, DSM 105001
158911	C. difficile 3022, CD3022, DSM 101085
165126	C. difficile JCM 5243
165127	C. difficile JCM 5244
165128	C. difficile JCM 5245
165129	C. difficile JCM 5246
165130	C. difficile JCM 5247
165131	C. difficile JCM 5248
165132	C. difficile JCM 5249
165133	C. difficile JCM 5250
165134	C. difficile JCM 5251
165135	C. difficile JCM 5252
165136	C. difficile JCM 5253
165137	C. difficile JCM 5254
165138	C. difficile JCM 5256
165139	C. difficile JCM 5257
165140	C. difficile JCM 5258
176413	C. difficile RT 023, DSM 102859
176414	C. difficile RT 127, DSM 102860

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
36997	positive	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Composition	Medium link
36997	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)
36997	CIP Medium 6		Medium recipe at CIP
36997	CIP Medium 20		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
36997	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

36997

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
36997	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
36997	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	+	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
36997	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
36997	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
36997	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
36997	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
36997	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
36997		Loudeac	France	FRA	Europe
36997	Animal, Piglet, diarrhea	Loudéac	France	FRA	Europe	2004

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
36997	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 )
#36997	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 109238
#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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