Name: Leptospira venezuelensis CLM-U50
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 158606

Type strain:

Species: Leptospira venezuelensis

Strain Designation: CLM-U50

Culture col. no.: CIP 111407, DSM 105752

Strain history: <- M. Picardeau, Institut Pasteur, Paris; CLM-U50 <- L. Caraballo, IVIC - Instituto Venezolao de Investigaciones Cientifica;

NCBI tax ID(s): 1958811 (species)

SI-ID 402925

DSM 105752

Section

Leptospira venezuelensis CLM-U50 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, motile bacterium that was isolated from urine of a patient with moderately severe leptospirosis.

helical-shaped
motile
anaerobe
mesophilic
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Spirochaetota*
	Class	*Spirochaetia*
	Order	*Leptospirales*
	Family	*Leptospiraceae*
	Genus	*Leptospira*
	Species	**Leptospira venezuelensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Leptospira venezuelensis Puche et al. 2018

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #65326]	Cell length	6-20 µm

[Ref.: #65326]	Cell width	0.1 µm

[Ref.: #65326]	Cell shape	helical-shaped

[Ref.: #65326]	Motility	yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

EMJH medium

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium

Stuart supplemented with rabbit serum

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium

Fletcher

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

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Culture medium

LEPTOSPIRA-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1113)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #65326]	optimum	30 °C
[Ref.: #65326]	growth	13 °C
[Ref.: #65326]	growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #67697]	growth	30 °C

[Ref.: #65326]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #65326]	Temperature range	psychrophilic
[Ref.: #65326]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67697]	Temperature range	mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

	Antibiotica	Metabolite	Antibiotic resistance	Concentration
[Ref.: #65326]		5-fluorouracil ChEBI	yes	50	µg/mL
[Ref.: #65326]		amphotericin b ChEBI	yes	20	µg/mL

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #65326]	Sample type/isolated from	urine of a patient with moderately severe leptospirosis
[Ref.: #65326]	Sampling date	2010
[Ref.: #65326]	Country	Venezuela
[Ref.: #65326]	Country ISO 3 Code	VEN
[Ref.: #65326]	Continent	Middle and South America

[Ref.: #67697]	Sample type/isolated from	human urine
[Ref.: #67697]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Caracas
[Ref.: #67697]	Country	Venezuela
[Ref.: #67697]	Country ISO 3 Code	VEN
[Ref.: #67697]	Continent	Middle and South America
[Ref.: #67697]	Geographic location	10.4806°/-66.9036°
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Isolation sources categories

#Host Body Product	#Fluids	#Urine
#Infection	#Patient	-

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Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Leptospira venezuelensis CLM-U50	GCA_002150035	contig	GenBank	1958811 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Leptospira venezuelensis CLM-U50	2882300135	draft	JGI IMG/M	1958811 tax ID	*

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GC-content

39.5 mol%

genome sequence analysis

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

CIP 111407, DSM 105752

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SI-ID 402925

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Leptospira venezuelensis sp. nov., a new member of the intermediate group isolated from rodents, cattle and humans.	Puche R, Ferres I, Caraballo L, Rangel Y, Picardeau M, Takiff H, Iraola G	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002528	2017	*

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 )

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Rafael Puche, Ignacio Ferrés, Lizeth Caraballo, Yaritza Rangel, Mathieu Picardeau, Howard Takiff, Gregorio Iraola: Leptospira venezuelensis sp. nov., a new member of the intermediate group isolated from rodents, cattle and humans. IJSEM 68: 513 - 517 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002528 , PubMed 29239713 )

#66792

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#67697

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 105752

#111322

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID402925.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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