Chlamydia psittaci (6BC, ATCC VR-125, Psittacosis strain 6 BC)

Name: Chlamydia psittaci (6BC, ATCC VR-125, Psittacosis strain 6 BC)
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BacDive ID 167826

Type strain

Strain Designation 6BC, Psittacosis strain 6 BC

Culture col. no. 6BC ATCC VR-125 Psittacosis strain 6 BC

NCBI tax ID(s) 83554

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Chlamydia psittaci 6BC is a bacterium of the family Chlamydiaceae.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 24733

ATCC VR-125

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:40:40

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Chlamydiota

Class Chlamydiia

Order Chlamydiales

Family Chlamydiaceae

Genus Chlamydia

Species Chlamydia psittaci

Full scientific name Chlamydia psittaci (Lillie 1930) Page 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

Chlamydophila psittaci
"Rickettsia psittaci"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Chlamydia psittaci** (2)	Type strain
23838	C. psittaci 07DE0014, DC60, 08DC60, DSM 27007
23839	C. psittaci 01DE0183, DC15, 02DC15, DSM 27008

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	99.8

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	93.5

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		93.849
125439		99.8

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB001778 (>99% sequence identity) for Chlamydia from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	98
Soil Samples	52
Animal Samples	740
Plant Samples	7
Total Samples	897

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM20425v1 assembly for Chlamydia psittaci 6BC	complete	GCA_000204255	331636.7	651053015	331636	98.94
66792	ASM19192v1 assembly for Chlamydia psittaci 6BC	complete	GCA_000191925	331636.3	650716023	331636	98.77

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20215	Chlamydophila psittaci gene for 16S rRNA, strain:6BC	AB001778	1507		331636
124043	Chlamydophila psittaci strain 6BC 16S and 23S ribosomal RNA operon, complete sequence.	U68447	4857		83554

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Chlamydia psittaci 6BC
NCBI: GCA_000191925

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	76.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.80	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	93.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Chlamydia psittaci 6BC 6BC
NCBI: GCA_000191925.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	84.06	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	65.20	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	80.16	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.85	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.36	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	72.91	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Protective Immunity against Chlamydia psittaci Lung Infection Induced by a DNA Plasmid Vaccine Carrying CPSIT_p7 Gene Inhibits Dissemination in BALB/c Mice.	Wang C, Jin Y, Wang J, Zheng K, Lei A, Lu C, Wang S, Wu Y.	Int J Mol Sci	10.3390/ijms24087013	2023
Metabolism	Chlamydia psittaci Induces Autophagy in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells via PERK and IRE1alpha, but Not ATF6 Pathway.	Chen L, Huang Q, Bai Q, Tong T, Zhou Y, Li Z, Xiao C, Chen L.	Infect Immun	10.1128/iai.00079-22	2022
	Intranasal immunization with inactivated chlamydial elementary bodies formulated in VCG-chitosan nanoparticles induces robust immunity against intranasal Chlamydia psittaci challenge.	Zuo Z, Zou Y, Li Q, Guo Y, Zhang T, Wu J, He C, Eko FO.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-021-89940-8	2021
Phylogeny	Chlamydiaceae infections in pig.	Schautteet K, Vanrompay D.	Vet Res	10.1186/1297-9716-42-29	2011
Metabolism	Acquisition and synthesis of folates by obligate intracellular bacteria of the genus Chlamydia.	Fan H, Brunham RC, McClarty G.	J Clin Invest	10.1172/jci116055	1992
	The sequence of the single 16S rRNA gene of the thermophilic eubacterium Rhodothermus marinus reveals a distant relationship to the group containing Flexibacter, Bacteroides, and Cytophaga species.	Andresson OS, Fridjonsson OH.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.176.20.6165-6169.1994	1994
Pathogenicity	Effect of 6-thioguanine on Chlamydia trachomatis growth in wild-type and hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase-deficient cells.	Qin B, McClarty G.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.174.9.2865-2873.1992	1992
Phylogeny	Phylogenetic analysis of the bacterial communities in marine sediments.	Gray JP, Herwig RP.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.62.11.4049-4059.1996	1996

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 )
#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) .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Chlamydia psittaci (6BC, ATCC VR-125, Psittacosis strain 6 BC)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000204255

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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