Escherichia fergusonii (CIP 104948, ATCC 35470, 3296-73)

Name: Escherichia fergusonii (CIP 104948, ATCC 35470, 3296-73)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 137175

Type strain

Strain Designation 3296-73

Culture col. no. CIP 104948 ATCC 35470 3296-73

NCBI tax ID(s) 564

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1996, PAD Grimont, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France <- CDC: strain 3296-73 <- Auburn Univ.

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Escherichia fergusonii 3296-73 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped facultative anaerobe genome sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 45990

ATCC 35470,CIP 104948,BCRC 15583,CCRC 15583

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:50

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Enterobacterales

Family Enterobacteriaceae

Genus Escherichia

Species Escherichia fergusonii

Full scientific name Escherichia fergusonii Farmer et al. 1985

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Escherichia fergusonii** (24)	Type strain
4930	E. fergusonii 568-73, DSM 13698, ATCC 35469, CDC 0568-73, ... (type strain)
4931	E. fergusonii Ef137, DSM 25831
143723	E. fergusonii CCUG 21144
143724	E. fergusonii CCUG 21145
143725	E. fergusonii CCUG 21146
143726	E. fergusonii CCUG 21147
143768	E. fergusonii CCUG 21203
143769	E. fergusonii CCUG 21204
145930	E. fergusonii CCUG 29925
145931	E. fergusonii CCUG 29926
145932	E. fergusonii CCUG 29927
145933	E. fergusonii CCUG 29928
145934	E. fergusonii CCUG 29929
145935	E. fergusonii CCUG 29930
145936	E. fergusonii CCUG 29931
145937	E. fergusonii CCUG 29932
145938	E. fergusonii CCUG 29933
145939	E. fergusonii CCUG 29934
145940	E. fergusonii CCUG 29935
145941	E. fergusonii CCUG 29936
145942	E. fergusonii CCUG 29937
145943	E. fergusonii CCUG 29938
165317	E. fergusonii JCM 5897, ATCC 35471, CDC 1016-74
165318	E. fergusonii JCM 5899, ATCC 35473, CDC 3458-74

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
125438	negative			99.75
37048	negative	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
37048	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar		Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
37048	CIP Medium 3			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
37048	positive	growth	30
37048	positive	growth	5-41

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

37048

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68371	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
37048	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
68371	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
37048	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
68371	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
37048	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	fermentation
37048	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	degradation
68371	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
37048	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	fermentation
68371	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
37048	15792 ChEBI	malonate	-	assimilation
68371	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
37048	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	fermentation
68371	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
37048	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
37048	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
68371		Potassium 2-ketogluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371		Potassium 5-ketogluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
37048	132112 ChEBI	sodium thiosulfate	-	builds gas from
68371	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	Metabolite	Is sensitive	Is resistant
37048	0129 (2,4-Diamino-6,7-di-iso-propylpteridine phosphate)

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
37048	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
37048	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
37048	17234 ChEBI	glucose		+

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
37048	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
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
37048	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
37048	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
37048	gelatinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
37048	lysine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
37048	ornithine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.17
37048	oxidase	-
37048	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
68382	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	from API zym
37048	tryptophan deaminase	-
37048	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
37048	-	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	-

API 50CHac

@ref	ControlQ	GLY	ERY	DARA	LARA	RIB	DXYL	LXYL	ADO	MDX	GAL	GLU	FRU	MNE	SBE	RHA	DUL	INO	MAN	SOR	MDM	MDG	NAG	AMY	ARB	ESC	SAL	CEL	MAL	LAC	MEL	SAC	TRE	INU	MLZ	RAF	AMD	GLYG	XLT	GEN	TUR	LYX	TAG	DFUC	LFUC	DARL	LARL	GNT	2KG	5KG
37048	not determinedn.d.	+	-	+/-	+	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+/-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	-

API biotype100

@ref	ControlQ	D-glucose as carbon sourceGLU	D-fructose as carbon sourceFRU	D-galactose as carbon sourceGAL	D-trehalose as carbon sourceTRE	D-mannose as carbon sourceMNE	L-sorbose as carbon sourceSBE	D-melibiose as carbon sourceMEL	sucrose as carbon sourceSAC	D-raffinose as carbon sourceRAF	maltotriose as carbon sourceMTE	maltose as carbon sourceMAL	lactose as carbon sourceLAC	lactulose as carbon sourceLTE	1-O-methyl-beta-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGa	1-O-methyl-alpha-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMaGa	D-cellobiose as carbon sourceCEL	gentiobiose as carbon sourceGEN	1-O-methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGu	esculin as carbon sourceESC	D-ribose as carbon sourceRIB	L-arabinose as carbon sourceARA	D-xylose as carbon sourceXYL	palatinose as carbon sourcePLE	L-rhamnose as carbon sourceRHA	L-fucose as carbon sourceFUC	D-melezitose as carbon sourceMLZ	D-arabitol as carbon sourceDARL	L-arabitol as carbon sourceLARL	xylitol as carbon sourceXLT	dulcitol as carbon sourceDUL	D-tagatose as carbon sourceTAG	glycerol as carbon sourceGLY	myo-inositol as carbon sourceINO	D-mannitol as carbon sourceMAN	maltitol as carbon sourceMTL	D-turanose as carbon sourceTUR	D-sorbitol as carbon sourceSOR	adonitol as carbon sourceADO	hydroxyquinoline-beta-glucuronide as carbon sourceHBG	D-lyxose as carbon sourceLYX	i-erythritol as carbon sourceERY	1-O-methyl-alpha-D-glucoside as carbon sourceMDG	3-O-methyl-D-glucose as carbon source3MDG	D-saccharate as carbon sourceSAT	mucate as carbon sourceMUC	L-tartrate as carbon sourceLTAT	D-tartrate as carbon sourceDTAT	meso-tartrate as carbon sourceMTAT	D-malate as carbon sourceDMLT	L-malate as carbon sourceLMLT	cis-aconitate as carbon sourceCATE	trans-aconitate as carbon sourceTATE	tricarballylate as carbon sourceTTE	citrate as carbon sourceCIT	D-glucuronate as carbon sourceGRT	D-galacturonate as carbon sourceGAT	2-ketogluconate as carbon source2KG	5-ketogluconate as carbon source5KG	tryptophan as carbon sourceTRY	N-acetyl-D-glucosamine as carbon sourceNAG	D-gluconate as carbon sourceGNT	phenylacetate as carbon sourcePAC	protocatechuate as carbon sourcePAT	4-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcepOBE	quinate as carbon sourceQAT	gentisate as carbon sourceGTE	3-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcemOBE	benzoate as carbon sourceBAT	3-phenylpropionate as carbon sourcePPAT	m-coumarate as carbon sourceCMT	trigonelline as carbon sourceTGE	betaine as carbon sourceBET	putrescine as carbon sourcePCE	4-aminobutyrate as carbon sourceABT	histamine as carbon sourceHIN	DL-lactate as carbon sourceLAT	caprate as carbon sourceCAP	caprylate as carbon sourceCYT	L-histidine as carbon sourceHIS	succinate as carbon sourceSUC	fumarate as carbon sourceFUM	glutarate as carbon sourceGRE	DL-glycerate as carbon sourceGYT	5-aminovalerate as carbon sourceAVT	ethanolamine as carbon sourceETN	tryptamine as carbon sourceTTN	D-glucosamine as carbon sourceGLN	itaconate as carbon sourceITA	3-hydroxybutyrate as carbon source3OBU	L-aspartate as carbon sourceAPT	L-glutamate as carbon sourceGTT	L-proline as carbon sourcePRO	D-alanine as carbon sourceDALA	L-alanine as carbon sourceLALA	L-serine as carbon sourceSER	malonate as carbon sourceMNT	propionate as carbon sourcePROP	L-tyrosine as carbon sourceTYR	2-ketoglutarate as carbon source2KT
37048	not determinedn.d.	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	-	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
37048	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM806491v1 assembly for Escherichia fergusonii ATCC 35470	complete	GCA_008064915	564.46	564	95.02

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Escherichia fergusonii ATCC 35470
NCBI: GCA_008064915

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	89.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	64.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	82.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	77.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Escherichia fergusonii ATCC 35470
NCBI: GCA_008064915.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.75	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.06	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	71.43	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.88	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.50	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	75.92	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Escherichia fergusonii Promotes Nonobese Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Interfering With Host Hepatic Lipid Metabolism Through Its Own msRNA 23487.	Xin FZ, Zhao ZH, Liu XL, Pan Q, Wang ZX, Zeng L, Zhang QR, Ye L, Wang MY, Zhang RN, Gong ZZ, Huang LJ, Sun C, Shen F, Jiang L, Fan JG.	Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol	10.1016/j.jcmgh.2021.12.003	2022
Phylogeny	Multiplex polymerase chain reaction for identification of Escherichia coli, Escherichia albertii and Escherichia fergusonii.	Lindsey RL, Garcia-Toledo L, Fasulo D, Gladney LM, Strockbine N.	J Microbiol Methods	10.1016/j.mimet.2017.06.005	2017

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 )
#37048	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 104948
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#68371	Automatically annotated from API 50CH acid .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Escherichia fergusonii (CIP 104948, ATCC 35470, 3296-73)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API 50CHac

API biotype100

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_008064915

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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