Bifidobacterium adolescentis (KACC 17904, JCM 19861)

Name: Bifidobacterium adolescentis (KACC 17904, JCM 19861)
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BacDive ID 162638

Type strain

Culture col. no. KACC 17904 JCM 19861

NCBI tax ID(s) 1680

Special Collections JCM

History G.-B. Kim CU3-7.

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Bifidobacterium adolescentis JCM 19861 is a bacterium that was isolated from Feces of a two-week-old baby.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 272615

LMG 30642,JCM 19861

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:39:26

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Bifidobacteriales

Family Bifidobacteriaceae

Genus Bifidobacterium

Species Bifidobacterium adolescentis

Full scientific name Bifidobacterium adolescentis Reuter 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

Bifidobacterium stercoris
Bifidobacterium faecale

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Bifidobacterium adolescentis** (16)	Type strain
1682	B. adolescentis E194a (Variant a), E194a, DSM 20083, ATCC ... (type strain)
1683	B. adolescentis E 298 b (Variant c), DSM 20086, ATCC 15705, ...
1684	B. adolescentis RU 424 (Mannitol fermenter), DSM 20087, JCM ...
1748	B. adolescentis Eg1, DSM 24849, JCM 15918, KCTC 5756, BCRC ...
137496	B. adolescentis E319a, CIP 64.61, ATCC 15706, NCDO 2231, ...
138910	B. adolescentis CIP 64.58, ATCC 15704, NCDO 2229, CCUG 45214, ...
151924	B. adolescentis CCUG 45215, CIP 64.60
152740	B. adolescentis CCUG 47519
153440	B. adolescentis CCUG 49594 A
157629	B. adolescentis ORG 4, ORG4, DSM 28529
157630	B. adolescentis ORG 8, ORG8, DSM 28530
157631	B. adolescentis f-BAD, DSM 107523
157632	B. adolescentis H1_9, DSM 108262
157633	B. adolescentis H4_11, DSM 108263
162521	B. adolescentis JCM 19480
165468	B. adolescentis JCM 7045, LMG 18898

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

67770

Sample typeFeces of a two-week-old baby

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Bifidobacterium faecale strain CU3-7 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KF990498	1449		1454229
67770	Bifidobacterium faecale JCM 19861 gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	LC589222	1463		1454229

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	58.6	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Reclassification of Bifidobacterium faecale Choi et al. 2014 as a later heterotypic synonym of Bifidobacterium adolescentis Reuter 1963.	Okuhama S, Takahashi H, Nakayama Y, Endo A.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006706	2025
Genetics	Complete genome sequences of Bifidobacterium faecale strain JCM19861^T, isolated from human feces.	Okuhama S, Takahashi H, Nakayama Y, Ogata Y, Suda W.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.00784-23	2024
Phylogeny	Bifidobacterium faecale sp. nov., isolated from human faeces.	Choi JH, Lee KM, Lee MK, Cha CJ, Kim GB	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.063479-0	2014

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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Bifidobacterium adolescentis (KACC 17904, JCM 19861)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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