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Afipia felis (DSM 16694, 25E-1)

Name: Afipia felis (DSM 16694, 25E-1)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 1779

Type strain

Strain Designation 25E-1

Culture col. no. DSM 16694 25E-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1035

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- A. P. Wood; 25E-1 <- S. A. Moosvi

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Afipia felis 25E-1 is a human pathogen that was isolated from Heywood Lake sediment.

human pathogen 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 201403

ATCC BAA-1029,DSM 16694

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:11

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Nitrobacteraceae

Genus Afipia

Species Afipia felis

Full scientific name Afipia felis Brenner et al. 1992

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Afipia felis** (2)	Type strain
1778	A. felis B-91-007352, CSD1, CSD 1, DSM 7326, ATCC ... (type strain)
135486	A. felis 76713, CIP 106335, CCUG 43109

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6569	NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6569	positive	growth	25-30

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Continent
6569	Heywood Lake sediment	South Orkney Islands, Signy Island	Australia and Oceania

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF514773 (>99% sequence identity) for Afipia from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	275
Soil Samples	269
Animal Samples	203
Plant Samples	60
Total Samples	807

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6569			2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6569	Afipia felis 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF514773	1453		1035

GC content

6569

GC-content (mol%)62.6

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#6569	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16694
#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 )
#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 .
#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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