Legionella fairfieldensis (CIP 105266, ATCC 49588, NCTC 12488)

Name: Legionella fairfieldensis (CIP 105266, ATCC 49588, NCTC 12488)
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BacDive ID 139459

Type strain

Strain Designation 1725-Aus-E

Culture col. no. CIP 105266 ATCC 49588 NCTC 12488 CCUG 31235 CCUG 66341 2 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1408444 45064

Special Collections CCUG CIP

History CIP <- 1997, CDC <- W.L. Thacker: strain 1725-Aus-E <- L. Hawes

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Legionella fairfieldensis 1725-Aus-E is a microaerophile, Gram-negative, motile bacterium of the family Legionellaceae.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 42567

ATCC 49588,CCUG 31235 A,CIP 105266,NCTC 12488,CCUG 31235,CCUG 66341T

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:21

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella fairfieldensis

Full scientific name Legionella fairfieldensis Thacker et al. 1991

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
125438	negative		97.879
125439	negative		99.7
41679	negative	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

63321

Incubation period3-5 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
41679	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)
41679	CIP Medium 23			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
41679	positive	growth	37
63321	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
63321	microaerophile
125439	obligate aerobe	97.6

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		92.048
125439		98.8

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
41679	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
41679	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
41679	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
41679	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
41679	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
41679	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
41679	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Built environment	#Water reservoir (Aquarium/pool)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
41679			Fairfield, Victoria	Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania
63321	Water,cooling tower	1991	Victoria,Fairfield	Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania
41679	Environment, Water, cooling tower		Fairfield, Victoria	Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
41679	2	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM62152v1 assembly for Legionella fairfieldensis ATCC 49588	scaffold	GCA_000621525	1408444.3	2558860982	1408444	63.43

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
124043	Legionella fairfieldensis 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence and tRNA-Ala gene, complete sequence.	KM609994	431	45064
124043	Legionella fairfieldensis 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence and tRNA-Ile gene, complete sequence.	KM609995	468	45064
124043	Legionella fairfieldensis strain MDC1608 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	JF720372	524	45064

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Legionella fairfieldensis ATCC 49588
NCBI: GCA_000621525

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	59.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	97.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Legionella fairfieldensis ATCC 49588 ATCC 49588
NCBI: GCA_000621525.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.88	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.28	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	74.83	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.05	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.35	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	58.98	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	A new oligonucleotide microarray for detection of pathogenic and non-pathogenic Legionella spp.	Cao B, Liu X, Yu X, Chen M, Feng L, Wang L.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0113863	2014
Phylogeny	Legionella confirmation using real-time PCR and SYTO9 is an alternative to current methodology.	Giglio S, Monis PT, Saint CP.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.71.12.8944-8948.2005	2005
Phylogeny	Legionella fairfieldensis sp. nov. isolated from cooling tower waters in Australia.	Thacker WL, Benson RF, Hawes L, Gidding H, Dwyer B, Mayberry WR, Brenner DJ	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.29.3.475-478.1991	1991

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 )
#41679	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 105266
#63321	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 66341
#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) .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Legionella fairfieldensis (CIP 105266, ATCC 49588, NCTC 12488)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000621525

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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