Empedobacter brevis (CCUG 14815)

Name: Empedobacter brevis (CCUG 14815)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 142789

Type strain

Culture col. no. CCUG 14815

NCBI tax ID(s) 247

Special Collections CCUG

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Empedobacter brevis CCUG 14815 is a bacterium that was isolated from Human blood.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 7036

LMG 12441,CCUG 14815

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:40:17

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
139061	E. brevis 68-78, 8 A, CIP 78.68, NCTC 11308
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
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

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68369	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20NE
68369	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API 20NE
68369	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	+	energy source	from API 20NE
68369	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20NE

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole	+	from API 20NE

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68369	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
68369	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API 20NE
68369	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1	from API 20NE
68369	gelatinase	+		from API 20NE
68369	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20NE

API 20NE

@ref	Reduction of nitratesNO3	TRP	GLU_ Ferm	ADH (Arg)	URE	ESC	GEL	PNPG	GLU_ Assim	ARA	MNE	MAN	NAG	MAL	GNT	CAP	ADI	MLT	CIT	PAC	OX
46157	-	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Human	-
#Host Body Product	#Fluids	#Blood

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
46157	Human blood	Homo sapiens	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

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 )
#46157	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 14815
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#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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