Rhodococcus equi (CIP 79.36, Cattin, 219-79)

Name: Rhodococcus equi (CIP 79.36, Cattin, 219-79)
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BacDive ID 137593

Type strain

Strain Designation Cattin, 219-79

Culture col. no. CIP 79.36 Cattin 219-79

NCBI tax ID(s) 43767

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1979, Lab. Ident. Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain 219-79, Corynebacterium equi <- Mengues, Colmar Hosp., Colmar, France: strain Cattin

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Rhodococcus equi Cattin is an obligate aerobe, Gram-positive, coccus-shaped bacterium of the family Nocardiaceae.

Gram-positive coccus-shaped obligate aerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 69890

CIP 79.36

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:55

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Nocardiaceae

Genus Rhodococcus

Species Rhodococcus equi

Full scientific name Rhodococcus equi (Magnusson 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (6)

Prescottella equi
Corynebacterium equi
Nocardia restricta
"Prescottia equi"
"Prescottella equi"
"Proactinomyces restrictus"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Rhodococcus equi** (11)	Type strain
134837	R. equi 304-74, CIP 74.35
135024	R. equi 165-87, CIP 102900
135118	R. equi 787-80, CIP 104292
136089	R. equi 3158, 413-86, CIP 102409
136114	R. equi CIP 102613
137484	R. equi 16.111, CIP 58.70
137485	R. equi 16449, CIP 58.71
137851	R. equi CIP 101849
137971	R. equi CIP 102374
138861	R. equi 6600, CIP 58.69
172710	R. equi GK1, CIP 105335

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
38400	positive	coccus-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Composition	Medium link
38400	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar	Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
38400	CIP Medium 72		Medium recipe at CIP
38400	CIP Medium 3		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
38400	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

38400

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
38400	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
38400	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
38400	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
38400	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
38400	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	from API zym
38400	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
38400	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
38400		Colmar	France	FRA	Europe
38400	Blood	Colmar	France	FRA	Europe	1979

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
38400	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 )
#38400	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 79.36
#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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