Name: Clostridium neonatale St. Boniface Hospital 30686
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 159785

Type strain:

Species: Clostridium neonatale

Strain Designation: St. Boniface Hospital 30686

Culture col. no.: ATCC BAA-265, CCUG 46077, LCDC 99A005

NCBI tax ID(s): 137838 (species)

SI-ID 409885

CCUG 70632, CCUG 46077

Other strains from Clostridium neonatale

C. neonatale CIP 108904, AIP 278-05
C. neonatale CCUG 70631

Section

Clostridium neonatale St. Boniface Hospital 30686 is an obligate anaerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium that was isolated from the blood culture of a neonate with necrotizing enterocolitis from the spleen of a 3-month-old.

Gram-positive
motile
rod-shaped
spore-forming
obligate anaerobe
Bacteria

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Clostridia*
	Order	*Eubacteriales*
	Family	*Clostridiaceae*
	Genus	*Clostridium*
	Species	**Clostridium neonatale**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Clostridium neonatale Bernard et al. 2018

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #66587]	Gram stain	positive

[Ref.: #66587]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #66587]	Motility	yes

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Colony color

grey

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

obligate anaerobe

[Ref.: #66587]	Spore description	discernible subterminal spores
[Ref.: #66587]	Ability of spore formation	yes

[Ref.: #66587]	Observation	Colonies are grey, irregular-edged and spreading or swarming on BHIA and are non-haemolytic on BBA.
[Ref.: #66587]	Observation	Growth in PY broth may be enhanced by dextrose.
[Ref.: #66587]	Observation	Milk is digested with gas production.

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #66587]	acetic acid ChEBI	-	reduction
[Ref.: #66587]	butyrate ChEBI	-	reduction
[Ref.: #66587]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	esculin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66587]	fructose ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	gelatin ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66587]	glucose ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	indole ChEBI	-	reduction
[Ref.: #66587]	lactate ChEBI	-	reduction
[Ref.: #66587]	lactose ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	maltose ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	mannitol ChEBI	-	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	mannose ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	melezitose ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #66587]	melibiose ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	nitrate ChEBI	-	reduction
[Ref.: #66587]	raffinose ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	rhamnose ChEBI	-	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	ribose ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	salicin ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	sorbitol ChEBI	-	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	starch ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	starch ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66587]	trehalose ChEBI	-	fermentation
[Ref.: #66587]	xylose ChEBI	+	fermentation
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	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #66587]		acetic acid ChEBI	yes
[Ref.: #66587]		indole ChEBI	no

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #66587]	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #66587]	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #66587]	lecithinase	-
[Ref.: #66587]	lipase	-
[Ref.: #66587]	urease	-	3.5.1.5

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

[Ref.: #66587]	Sample type/isolated from	the blood culture of a neonate with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) from the spleen of a 3-month-old
[Ref.: #66587]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Winnipeg
[Ref.: #66587]	Country	Canada
[Ref.: #66587]	Country ISO 3 Code	CAN
[Ref.: #66587]	Continent	North America
[Ref.: #66587]	Geographic location	49.8842°/-97.1248°
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Isolation sources categories

#Infection	#Patient	#Blood culture
#Host	#Human	#Child
#Infection	#Disease	-

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

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GC-content

28.4-28.5 mol%

genome sequence analysis

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

ATCC BAA-265, CCUG 46077, LCDC 99A005

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SI-ID 409885

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Clostridium neonatale sp. nov. linked to necrotizing enterocolitis in neonates and a clarification of species assignable to the genus Clostridium (Prazmowski 1880) emend. Lawson and Rainey 2016.	Bernard K, Burdz T, Wiebe D, Alfa M, Bernier AM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002827	2018	*

References

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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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Kathryn Bernard, Tamara Burdz, Deborah Wiebe, Michelle Alfa, Anne-Marie Bernier: Salegentibacter sediminis sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the family lavobacteriaceaeClostridium neonatale sp. nov. linked to necrotizing enterocolitis in neonates and a clarification of species assignable to the genus Clostridium (Prazmowski 1880) emend. Lawson and Rainey 2016. IJSEM 68: 2416 - 2423 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002827 , PubMed 29889020 )

#112169

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-ID409885.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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