Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (CIP 79.35, 260-79)

Name: Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (CIP 79.35, 260-79)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 137592

Type strain

Strain Designation 260-79

Culture col. no. CIP 79.35 260-79

NCBI tax ID(s) 238

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1979, Lab. Ident. Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain 260-79 <- Inst. Pasteur, Noumea, New Caledonia, Flavobacterium meningosepticum

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Elizabethkingia meningoseptica 260-79 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Weeksellaceae.

Gram-negative rod-shaped obligate aerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 67819

CIP 79.35

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:39:04

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Weeksellaceae

Genus Elizabethkingia

Species Elizabethkingia meningoseptica

Full scientific name Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (King 1959) Kim et al. 2005

Synonyms (2)

Flavobacterium meningosepticum
Chryseobacterium meningosepticum

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Elizabethkingia meningoseptica** (75)	Type strain
5506	E. meningoseptica 14 (serotype A), DSM 2800, ATCC 13253, IAM ... (type strain)
134620	E. meningoseptica CIP 60.59, ATCC 13255, NCTC 10586
134866	E. meningoseptica 40-78, CIP 79.5, NCTC 11306
134960	E. meningoseptica 34.87, CIP 102787
135151	E. meningoseptica 371.81, CIP 103064
135787	E. meningoseptica 30-78, CIP 78.45
135804	E. meningoseptica 37-75, CIP 79.29, NCTC 11309, CCUG 16478
135812	E. meningoseptica 58-80, CIP 80.33, NCTC 11381
136007	E. meningoseptica CIP 101999
136266	E. meningoseptica AmMS 250, CIP 104057, ATCC 49470
136559	E. meningoseptica PINT, CIP 106814
136963	E. meningoseptica CIP 108652, NTU 870424-IL
136964	E. meningoseptica LDVH AR107, CIP 108654
137541	E. meningoseptica CIP 78.7, NCTC 10587, CCUG 4309
137542	E. meningoseptica 8388, CCUG 4308, CIP 78.8, NCTC 10588
137543	E. meningoseptica 8707, CIP 78.9, NCTC 10589, CCUG 4218, ATCC ...
137583	E. meningoseptica G4071, 13-78, CIP 78.30, NCTC 11305, DSM ...
137696	E. meningoseptica 28-80, CIP 80.32, NCTC 11379
137803	E. meningoseptica 590.76, CIP 102962
138466	E. meningoseptica CIP 60.58, ATCC 13254, NCTC 10585
139439	E. meningoseptica 928-82, CIP 111048
139441	E. meningoseptica 393-79, CIP 111043
139443	E. meningoseptica 929-82, CIP 111049
141324	E. meningoseptica CCUG 855
141540	E. meningoseptica CCUG 2800 A
141611	E. meningoseptica CCUG 3645
141862	E. meningoseptica CCUG 7924
142086	E. meningoseptica CCUG 10540
142491	E. meningoseptica CCUG 12664 A
142706	E. meningoseptica CCUG 14224, LMG 12874
142707	E. meningoseptica CCUG 14225
142959	E. meningoseptica CCUG 15909
143452	E. meningoseptica CCUG 19227
143630	E. meningoseptica CCUG 20660
143860	E. meningoseptica CCUG 21611
144190	E. meningoseptica CCUG 23419
144255	E. meningoseptica CCUG 23973
144372	E. meningoseptica CCUG 24787
144555	E. meningoseptica CCUG 25659
144656	E. meningoseptica CCUG 26117, ATCC 51720
145442	E. meningoseptica CCUG 28552
145770	E. meningoseptica CCUG 29546 A
145842	E. meningoseptica CCUG 29764
145854	E. meningoseptica CCUG 29795
146157	E. meningoseptica CCUG 30473
146691	E. meningoseptica CCUG 31955
146906	E. meningoseptica CCUG 32413
146971	E. meningoseptica CCUG 32575
147012	E. meningoseptica CCUG 32643
147386	E. meningoseptica CCUG 33506
147645	E. meningoseptica CCUG 33943
147700	E. meningoseptica CCUG 34034
147839	E. meningoseptica CCUG 34344
147952	E. meningoseptica CCUG 34573
148581	E. meningoseptica CCUG 35667
148801	E. meningoseptica CCUG 35954
149199	E. meningoseptica CCUG 37255
149550	E. meningoseptica CCUG 37945
150038	E. meningoseptica CCUG 38902
150211	E. meningoseptica CCUG 39291
150266	E. meningoseptica CCUG 39437
150478	E. meningoseptica CCUG 41404
150611	E. meningoseptica CCUG 41754
150792	E. meningoseptica CCUG 42353
150888	E. meningoseptica CCUG 42630
153904	E. meningoseptica CCUG 51574
157096	E. meningoseptica CCUG 69507
157097	E. meningoseptica CCUG 69508
157098	E. meningoseptica CCUG 69509
157104	E. meningoseptica CCUG 69515
157107	E. meningoseptica CCUG 69518
157109	E. meningoseptica CCUG 69520
157110	E. meningoseptica CCUG 69521
157113	E. meningoseptica CCUG 69524
176412	E. meningoseptica Dres_ElizSp_24, DSM 107744

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
38399	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Composition	Medium link
38399	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar	Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
38399	CIP Medium 3		Medium recipe at CIP
38399	CIP Medium 72		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
38399	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

38399

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
38399	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
38399	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
38399	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
38399	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
38399	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	from API zym
38399	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
38399	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
38399				New Caledonia	NCL	Australia and Oceania
38399	Human, Cerebrospinal fluid (child)	Homo sapiens	New Caledonia	France	FRA	Europe	1979

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
38399	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 )
#38399	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 79.35
#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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