Clostridium leptum (DSM 108256, H5_48)

Name: Clostridium leptum (DSM 108256, H5_48)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 157671

Type strain

Strain Designation H5_48

Culture col. no. DSM 108256 H5_48

NCBI tax ID(s) 1535

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- H. Browne, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; H5_48 <- H. Browne {2014}

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Clostridium leptum H5_48 is a bacterium that was isolated from human faeces.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 398444

DSM 108256

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:43:47

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium leptum

Full scientific name Clostridium leptum Moore et al. 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Clostridium leptum** (1)	Type strain
2612	C. leptum DSM 753, ATCC 29065, VPI T7-24-1 (type strain)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
64240	WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (N2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 339a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (N2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 339a) Composition: dehydrated Wilkins-Chalgren medium 33.0 g/l D-Glucose 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.3 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water
64240	CMC MEDIUM (N2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 110a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CMC MEDIUM (N2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 110a) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l K2HPO4 5.0 g/l D-Glucose 4.0 g/l Na2CO3 1.5 g/l Cellobiose 1.0 g/l Maltose 1.0 g/l Starch 1.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l NaOH Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
64240	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
64240	human faeces	Homo sapiens	Cambridgeshire, Hinxton	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
64240	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 )
#64240	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 108256
#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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