Phocaeicola vulgatus (DSM 108222, H4_2)

Name: Phocaeicola vulgatus (DSM 108222, H4_2)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 157626

Type strain

Strain Designation H4_2

Culture col. no. DSM 108222 H4_2

NCBI tax ID(s) 821

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- H. Browne, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; H4_2

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Phocaeicola vulgatus H4_2 is a bacterium that was isolated from human faeces.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407106

DSM 108222

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:43:46

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Bacteroidia

Order Bacteroidales

Family Bacteroidaceae

Genus Phocaeicola

Species Phocaeicola vulgatus

Full scientific name Phocaeicola vulgatus (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) García-López et al. 2020

Synonyms (1)

Bacteroides vulgatus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Phocaeicola vulgatus** (8)	Type strain
1601	P. vulgatus LRA 049 07 85, DSM 1447, ATCC 8482, CCUG ... (type strain)
1588	P. vulgatus mprl 1840, MPRL 1840/MH4, DSM 9670
1602	P. vulgatus CCUG 12546, KCTC 2639, DSM 3289, ATCC 29327, ...
130883	P. vulgatus 39a-cc-B-5824-ARE, DSM 28735
157627	P. vulgatus H5_1, DSM 108228
157628	P. vulgatus H6_5, DSM 108234
158887	P. vulgatus WCA-389-WT-3C, DSM 107446
174363	P. vulgatus HUN383, NLAE-zl-G202, DSM 116443

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
64195	PYG MEDIUM (MODIFIED) (DSMZ Medium 104)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PYG MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 104) Composition: Yeast extract 10.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Trypticase peptone 5.0 g/l Beef extract 5.0 g/l Glucose 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l NaHCO3 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.08 g/l K2HPO4 0.04 g/l KH2PO4 0.04 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.02 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.01 g/l Hemin 0.005 g/l Ethanol 0.0038 g/l Resazurin 0.001 g/l Tween 80 Vitamin K1 NaOH Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
64195	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Human	-
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
64195	human faeces	Homo sapiens	Cambridgeshire	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
64195	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German 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 )
#64195	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 108222
#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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