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Legionella erythra (CCUG 38479)

Name: Legionella erythra (CCUG 38479)
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BacDive ID 149825

Type strain

Culture col. no. CCUG 38479

NCBI tax ID(s) 448

Special Collections CCUG

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Legionella erythra CCUG 38479 is a microaerophile bacterium that was isolated from Water at +47°C.

microaerophile Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 55098

CCUG 38479

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:42:00

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella erythra

Full scientific name Legionella erythra Brenner et al. 1985

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Legionella erythra** (1)	Type strain
6733	L. erythra SE-32A-C8, CCUG 29667, DSM 17644, ATCC 35303, ... (type strain)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
54282	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

54282

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

54282

Fatty acid	Percentage	ECL
C16:1 ω7c	31.9	15.819
C16:0 iso	19	15.626
C16:0	17.9	16
C17:0 anteiso	10.8	16.722
C15:0 ANTEISO	8.5	14.711
C18:0	3	18
C17:0	1.8	17
C15:1 ω6c	1.5	14.856
C14:0 ISO	1.1	13.618
C20:0	1	20
C15:0	1	15
C14:1 ω5c	0.7	13.899
C14:0	0.6	14
C15:0 ISO	0.5	14.621
C14:0 ISO 3OH	0.4	15.117
C18:0 ISO	0.4	17.632

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
54282	Water at +47°C	1997-09-13	Göteborg	Sweden	SWE	Europe

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 )
#54282	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 38479
#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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