Legionella rowbothamii (CIP 107646, ATCC 700991, CCUG 43886)

Name: Legionella rowbothamii (CIP 107646, ATCC 700991, CCUG 43886)
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BacDive ID 138524

Type strain

Strain Designation LLAP-6

Culture col. no. CIP 107646 ATCC 700991 CCUG 43886 LLAP-6

NCBI tax ID(s) 1212490 96229

Special Collections CCUG CIP

History CIP <- 2011, CCUG <- 2000, R.F. Benson, CDC, Atlanta, USA <- T.J. Rowbotham, PHL, Leeds, UK: strain LLAP-6

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Legionella rowbothamii LLAP-6 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote of the family Legionellaceae.

Gram-negative rod-shaped aerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 44242

ATCC 700991,CCUG43886,CIP 107646

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:08

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella rowbothamii

Full scientific name Legionella rowbothamii Adeleke et al. 2001

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
39912	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
39912	MEDIUM 23 - for Afipia and Legionella		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Legionella agar (37.000 g);Legionella - enrichment mixture (10.000 ml)
39912	CIP Medium 23			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
39912	positive	growth	25	mesophilic
39912	positive	growth	30-37	mesophilic
56067	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
56067	aerobe
39912	obligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
39912	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	respiration

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
39912	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
39912	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
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
39912	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Sample type	Isolation date
56067	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe
39912				Environment, Water and sludge from an industrial liquifier tower	1988

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
39912	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 )
#39912	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 107646
#56067	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 43886
#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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