Campylobacter fetus (CIP A168, CCUG 11286, Legars)

Name: Campylobacter fetus (CIP A168, CCUG 11286, Legars)
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BacDive ID 139590

Type strain

Strain Designation Legars

Culture col. no. CIP A168 CCUG 11286 Legars

NCBI tax ID(s) 196

Special Collections CCUG CIP

History 1950, J. Gaillard: strain Legars CIP <- 1950, J. Gaillard: strain Legars

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Campylobacter fetus Legars is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium of the family Campylobacteraceae.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped obligate aerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 101727

CCUG 11286,CIP A168

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:23

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Epsilonproteobacteria

Order Campylobacterales

Family Campylobacteraceae

Genus Campylobacter

Species Campylobacter fetus

Full scientific name Campylobacter fetus (Smith and Taylor 1919) Sebald and Véron 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

"Vibrio fetus"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Campylobacter fetus** (65)	Type strain
134416	C. fetus CIP 54.11, RB 2
134622	C. fetus 922, CIP 69.43
134747	C. fetus Lebeau, CIP 58.67
134817	C. fetus 2137/2, CIP 69.44
134896	C. fetus 720.86, CIP 102710
135268	C. fetus Ab71, CIP 68.24
135353	C. fetus 2978162, CIP 103992
135540	C. fetus VB, CIP 53.92
135544	C. fetus 661 brebis, CIP 53.93
135656	C. fetus CIP 68.23
135726	C. fetus CIP 55.15
135913	C. fetus L, CIP 54.28, ATCC 10624
136138	C. fetus 26.87, CIP 102778
136246	C. fetus 92-1, CIP 103955
136280	C. fetus CIP 53.94, NCTC 1896
136306	C. fetus Milton, CIP 53.95, NCTC 5850
136438	C. fetus Christ 254, CIP 54.37
137051	C. fetus Viain, CIP 57.21
137067	C. fetus Am, CIP 53.104
137511	C. fetus 7572, CIP 68.8
137531	C. fetus Durdeaux, CIP 70.84
137532	C. fetus Thoine, CIP 70.85, CCUG 7473
137605	C. fetus BAC, 471-79, CIP 80.8
137631	C. fetus 534.86, CIP 102581
137695	C. fetus 699.85, CIP 101847
137740	C. fetus 738.83, CIP 100410
137741	C. fetus 736.83, CIP 100411
137781	C. fetus 664.85, CIP 101811
137863	C. fetus 905.85, CIP 101955
138054	C. fetus 624-86, CIP 102621
138243	C. fetus 9664753, CIP 105787
138600	C. fetus CIP 101714
138726	C. fetus 13.83, CIP 100006
138833	C. fetus CIP 56.88
139035	C. fetus Lixon, CIP 57.1
142096	C. fetus CCUG 10770, NCTC 10348
142613	C. fetus CCUG 13315
142614	C. fetus CCUG 13316
142615	C. fetus CCUG 13317
142616	C. fetus CCUG 13318
143191	C. fetus CCUG 17693, LMG 6569
143192	C. fetus CCUG 17694, LMG 6571
143193	C. fetus CCUG 17695 A, LMG 6628t1, LMG 6727
143239	C. fetus CCUG 17986
143250	C. fetus CCUG 18035
144444	C. fetus CCUG 24982
145333	C. fetus CCUG 28206
145803	C. fetus CCUG 29637
145970	C. fetus CCUG 30043
146207	C. fetus CCUG 30605
146783	C. fetus CCUG 32114
147033	C. fetus CCUG 32676
147034	C. fetus CCUG 32677
147482	C. fetus CCUG 33671
147514	C. fetus CCUG 33720
148193	C. fetus CCUG 35018
148280	C. fetus CCUG 35147, ACCC 5/4101
148811	C. fetus CCUG 35971
150449	C. fetus CCUG 39963
150476	C. fetus CCUG 41395
150535	C. fetus CCUG 41521
150779	C. fetus CCUG 42302
151028	C. fetus CCUG 43084
151750	C. fetus CCUG 44789
153775	C. fetus CCUG 50940

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
42089	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
42089	MEDIUM 6 - Columbia agar with 10 % horse blood		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Columbia agar (39.000 g);Horseblood (100.000 ml)
42089	CIP Medium 6			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
42089	positive	growth	37
42089	positive	growth	25-37
42089	negative	growth	5
42089	negative	growth	10
42089	negative	growth	41
42089	negative	growth	45

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

42089

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68373	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	assimilation	from API CAM
68373	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation	from API CAM
68373	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation	from API CAM
68373	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	-	hydrolysis	from API CAM
42089	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	-	hydrolysis
68373	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation	from API CAM
68373	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction	from API CAM
42089	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
42089	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
68373	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	assimilation	from API CAM
68373	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	assimilation	from API CAM
68373	78019 ChEBI	triphenyltetrazolium chloride	-	reduction	from API CAM
68373	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API CAM

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.	Resistance conc.
68373	474053	cefazolin	224 µg		from API CAM
68373	48923	erythromycin	14 µg		from API CAM
68373	100147	nalidixic acid		84 µg	from API CAM

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68373	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide		from API CAM
42089	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68373	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API CAM
42089	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68373	catalase	+	1.11.1.6	from API CAM
68373	esterase	+		from API CAM
68373	gamma-glutamyltransferase	-	2.3.2.2	from API CAM
42089	gelatinase	-
68373	L-arginine arylamidase	-		from API CAM
68373	L-aspartate arylamidase	-	3.4.11.21	from API CAM
42089	oxidase	+
68373	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3	from API CAM
42089	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68373	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API CAM

API CAM

@ref	URE	Reduction of nitrateNIT	EsteraseEST	HIP	GGT	TTC	PYRA	L-arginine arylamidaseArgA	L-aspartic acid arylamidaseAspA	PAL	H2S productionH2S	GLU	SUT	NAL	CFZ	ACE	PROP	MLT	CIT	Erythromycin resistance (+) sensitivity (-)ERO	CAT
45413	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	-	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Infection	#Patient	#Blood culture
#Host	#Human	-
#Host Body Product	#Fluids	#Blood

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
42089			France	FRA	Europe
45413	Human blood culture	1950	France	FRA	Europe
42089	Blood		France	FRA	Europe	1950

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
42089	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 )
#42089	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP A168
#45413	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 11286
#68373	Automatically annotated from API CAM .
#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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