Empedobacter brevis (CIP 78.68, NCTC 11308, 68-78)

Name: Empedobacter brevis (CIP 78.68, NCTC 11308, 68-78)
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BacDive ID 139061

Type strain

Strain Designation 68-78, 8 A

Culture col. no. CIP 78.68 NCTC 11308 68-78 8 A

NCBI tax ID(s) 247

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1978, C. Richard, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France, Flavobacterium meningoseptcium, serotype J: strain 68-78 <- R. Minck, Strasbourg Hosp., France: strain 8 A

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Empedobacter brevis 68-78 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Nurse, hands.

Gram-negative rod-shaped obligate aerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 68221

NCTC 11308,CIP 78.68

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:15

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Weeksellaceae

Genus Empedobacter

Species Empedobacter brevis

Full scientific name Empedobacter brevis (Holmes and Owen 1982 ex Lustig 1890) Vandamme et al. 1994

Synonyms (2)

"Flavobacterium brevis"
Flavobacterium breve

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Empedobacter brevis** (30)	Type strain
138772	E. brevis CL 88-76, CIP 103104, ATCC 43319, CCM 3299, ... (type strain)
134412	E. brevis CIP 103060
135104	E. brevis B68189, 14-74, CIP 78.46
135183	E. brevis CIP 103067
135866	E. brevis CIP 103061
135982	E. brevis CIP 102965
136020	E. brevis 539-85, CIP 101742
136166	E. brevis CIP 103077
136167	E. brevis CIP 103083
137225	E. brevis CIP 103046
137227	E. brevis CIP 103081
137588	E. brevis 24-74, 90 809, CIP 79.25, NCTC 11307
137597	E. brevis 25-79, CIP 79.41, NCTC 11380
137979	E. brevis CIP 102377
138770	E. brevis CIP 103076
139489	E. brevis CIP 111032
139517	E. brevis CIP 111072, CIP 200682
142681	E. brevis CCUG 13901, NCTC 11163
142743	E. brevis CCUG 14337 A
142744	E. brevis CCUG 14338
142789	E. brevis CCUG 14815
143498	E. brevis CCUG 19540 B
143857	E. brevis CCUG 21606
143971	E. brevis CCUG 22174
144647	E. brevis CCUG 26050
145353	E. brevis CCUG 28266
165416	E. brevis JCM 6810
165417	E. brevis JCM 6811
171316	E. brevis R528, CIP 109971
171317	E. brevis R563, Legall, CIP 109974

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
41092	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Composition	Medium link
41092	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar	Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
41092	CIP Medium 3		Medium recipe at CIP
41092	CIP Medium 72		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
41092	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

41092

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
41092	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
41092	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
41092	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
41092	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
41092	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
41092	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
41092	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

41092

Sample typeNurse, hands

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
41092	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	DNA-DNA hybridization study of strains of Chryseobacterium, Elizabethkingia and Empedobacter and of other usually indole-producing non-fermenters of CDC groups IIc, IIe, IIh and IIi, mostly from human clinical sources, and proposals of Chryseobacterium bernardetii sp. nov., Chryseobacterium carnis sp. nov., Chryseobacterium lactis sp. nov., Chryseobacterium nakagawai sp. nov. and Chryseobacterium taklimakanense comb. nov.	Holmes B, Steigerwalt AG, Nicholson AC.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.054353-0	2013

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 )
#41092	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 78.68
#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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Empedobacter brevis (CIP 78.68, NCTC 11308, 68-78)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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