Campylobacter showae (DSM 19458, ATCC 51146, CCUG 30254)

Name: Campylobacter showae (DSM 19458, ATCC 51146, CCUG 30254)
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BacDive ID 2136

Type strain

Strain Designation SU A4

Culture col. no. DSM 19458 ATCC 51146 CCUG 30254 JCM 12989 SU A4 3 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 204

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM KCTC CIP Literature strains

History DSMZ <- JCM; JCM 12989 <- CCUG; CCUG 30254 <- F. E. Dewhirst; <- N. Goto; SU A4 <- Y. Etoh; CIP <- 1994, Y. Etoh, Showa Univ. School Dent., Tokyo, Japan: strain SU A4 JCM <-- CCUG 30254 <-- F. E. Dewhirst <-- N. Goto SU A4 <-- Y. Etoh. CIP <- 1994, Y. Etoh, Showa Univ. School of Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan: strain SU A4

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Campylobacter showae SU A4 is an anaerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from human oral cavity.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 7852

LMG 12635,ATCC 51146,CCUG 30254,NCTC 12843,CIP 103970,CCUG 3054,JCM 12989,DSM 19458

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:25

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Epsilonproteobacteria

Order Campylobacterales

Family Campylobacteraceae

Genus Campylobacter

Species Campylobacter showae

Full scientific name Campylobacter showae Etoh et al. 1993

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Campylobacter showae** (2)	Type strain
142318	C. showae CCUG 11641, LMG 8543
146049	C. showae CCUG 30256

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Flagellum arrangement	Confidence
23068	negative	2.0-5.0 µm	0.5-0.8 µm	rod-shaped	lophotrichous
122592	negative			rod-shaped
125439	negative					91.998
125438	negative					95.461

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Medium used	Incubation period
8100			1-2 days
23068	1.0-2.0 mm	blood agar plates

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
8100	COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693) Composition: Defibrinated sheep blood 50.0 g/l Columbia agar base
23068	blood agar plates		supplemented with 0.2% sodium formate and 0.3% sodium fumarate
40897	MEDIUM 24 - for Campylobacter concisus, C. sputorum and C. mucosalis		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Horse blood (100.000 ml);Brainheart infusion agar (52.000 g);Formate solution - M00175 (100.000 ml);Fumaric acid solution- M0176 (100.000 ml)
122592	CIP Medium 24	Medium recipe at CIP
8100	BTU MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 413)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BTU MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 413) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Na-formiate 1.8 g/l Na-fumarate 1.8 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Ethanol 0.19 g/l Vitamin K3 0.05 g/l Hemin 0.005 g/l Resazurin 0.001 g/l Water Vitamin K1 Distilled water NaOH

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
8100	positive	growth	37
23068	negative	growth	25.0
23068	positive	growth	42.0
40897	positive	growth	37
49981	positive	growth	30-37
67770	positive	growth	37
122592	positive	growth	37-41
122592	negative	growth	5
122592	negative	growth	25
122592	negative	growth	30
122592	negative	growth	45

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
8100	anaerobe
49981	anaerobe
49981	microaerophile

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
23068
125439		99.748
125438		92.295

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
23068	NaCl		growth	3.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68373	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation	from API CAM
68373	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation	from API CAM
23068	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	-	hydrolysis
68373	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	-	hydrolysis	from API CAM
122592	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	-	hydrolysis
23068	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
68373	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API CAM
122592	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
23068	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	+	reduction
122592	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
68373	30031 ChEBI	succinate	-	assimilation	from API CAM
68373	78019 ChEBI	triphenyltetrazolium chloride	-	reduction	from API CAM
68373	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API CAM

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.
68373	474053	cefazolin	224 µg	from API CAM
23068	3542	cephalothin
68373	48923	erythromycin	14 µg	from API CAM
23068	100147	nalidixic acid
68373	100147	nalidixic acid	84 µg	from API CAM

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
23068	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
68373	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide	from API CAM
122592	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
23068	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1
23068	arylsulfatase	+	3.1.6.1
23068	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
122592	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68373	catalase	+	1.11.1.6	from API CAM
23068	gamma-glutamyltransferase	-	2.3.2.2
68373	gamma-glutamyltransferase	-	2.3.2.2	from API CAM
68373	L-aspartate arylamidase	+	3.4.11.21	from API CAM
23068	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
23068	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
122592	oxidase	+
68373	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3	from API CAM
23068	urease	-	3.5.1.5
122592	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68373	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API CAM

API CAM

@ref	URE	Reduction of nitrateNIT	EsteraseEST	HIP	GGT	TTC	PYRA	L-arginine arylamidaseArgA	L-aspartic acid arylamidaseAspA	PAL	H2S productionH2S	GLU	SUT	NAL	CFZ	ACE	PROP	MLT	CIT	Erythromycin resistance (+) sensitivity (-)ERO	CAT
8100	-	-	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+
8100	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+
8100	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+/-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Infection	#Disease	-
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways	#Tooth
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways	#Plaque
#Host	#Human	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Sampling date
8100	human oral cavity	Homo sapiens		Japan	JPN	Asia
23068	human dental plaque and from infected root canals	Homo sapiens	Showa University, Tokyo					plates containing modified CBRCA (China blue-blood-RCA)	containing reinforced clostridial agar (Oxoid Ltd.,Hampshire,England), 5% horse blood, 0.03% China blue, 0.2% sodium formate, 0.3% sodium fumarate, and 0.5 kg of menadion per ml
49981	Human gingival crevice	Homo sapiens								1982
67770	Human gingival crevice	Homo sapiens
122592	Human, With sub-gingival crevice, dental plaque	Homo sapiens	Tokyo	Japan	JPN	Asia	1980

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JF747611 (>99% sequence identity) for Campylobacter showae subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	369
Soil Samples	353
Animal Samples	25334
Plant Samples	157
Total Samples	26213

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8100	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
122592		2	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM480381v1 assembly for Campylobacter showae ATCC 51146	complete	GCA_004803815	204.182		204	98.5
67770	ASM17565v1 assembly for Campylobacter showae RM3277	contig	GCA_000175655	553219.3	645058720	553219	71.61

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Campylobacter showae strain ATCC 51146 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JF747611	1274	204
20218	Campylobacter showae strain ATCC 51146 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JX912525	1433	204
23068	Campylobacter showae 16S ribosomal RNA sequence	L06974	1458	204
8100	Campylobacter showae strain CCUG 30254 16S ribosomal RNA (rrs) gene, partial sequence	DQ174155	1339	204

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
8100	44
23068	44-46	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM480381v1 assembly for Campylobacter showae ATCC 51146
BV-BRC: 204.182

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	74.31	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	92.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	86.34	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.75	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Campylobacter showae ATCC 51146
NCBI: GCA_004803815.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	95.46	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	63.84	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	90.85	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.30	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	88.77	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	63.30	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Fusobacterium nucleatum and Bacteroides fragilis detection in colorectal tumours: Optimal target site and correlation with total bacterial load.	Rye MS, Garrett KL, Holt RA, Platell CF, McCoy MJ.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0262416	2022
	Evaluation of microbiota associated with Herpesviruses in active sites of generalized aggressive periodontitis.	Passariello C, Gigola P, Testarelli L, Puttini M, Schippa S, Petti S.	Ann Stomatol (Roma)	10.11138/ads/2017.8.2.071	2017
	Lactobacillus acidophilus impairs the establishment of pathogens in a subgingival multispecies biofilm.	Bueno MR, Dudu-Silva G, Macedo TT, Gomes APAP, Rodrigues Oliveira Braga A, Aguiar Silva LD, Bueno-Silva B.	Front Dent Med	10.3389/fdmed.2023.1212773	2023
Genetics	Comparative genomics and genome biology of Campylobacter showae.	Hsu T, Gemmell MR, Franzosa EA, Berry S, Mukhopadhya I, Hansen R, Michaud M, Nielsen H, Miller WG, Nielsen H, Bajaj-Elliott M, Huttenhower C, Garrett WS, Hold GL.	Emerg Microbes Infect	10.1080/22221751.2019.1622455	2019
	Antimicrobial Activity of Methylene Blue Associated with Photodynamic Therapy: In Vitro Study in Multi-Species Oral Biofilm.	Bueno-Silva B, Parma-Garcia J, Frigo L, Suarez LJ, Macedo TT, Uyeda FH, Melo MARDC, Sacco R, Mourao CF, Feres M, Shibli JA, Figueiredo LC.	Pathogens	10.3390/pathogens13040342	2024
	Evaluation of the Microbial Profile on the Polydioxanone Membrane and the Collagen Membrane Exposed to Multi-Species Subgingival Biofilm: An In Vitro Study.	Cintra Moreira MV, Figueiredo LC, da Cunha Melo MAR, Uyeda FH, da Silva LDA, Macedo TT, Sacco R, Mourao CF, Shibli JA, Bueno-Silva B.	Membranes (Basel)	10.3390/membranes13120907	2023
Pathogenicity	Antibacterial Activity of a Bioactive Tooth-Coating Material Containing Surface Pre-Reacted Glass in a Complex Multispecies Subgingival Biofilm.	Tanaka CJ, Rodrigues JA, Pingueiro JMS, Macedo TT, Feres M, Shibli JA, Bueno-Silva B.	Pharmaceutics	10.3390/pharmaceutics15061727	2023
	Propolis, Aloe Vera, Green Tea, Cranberry, Calendula, Myrrha and Salvia Properties against Periodontal Microorganisms.	Figueiredo LC, Freitas Figueiredo N, da Cruz DF, Baccelli GT, Sarachini GE, Bueno MR, Feres M, Bueno-Silva B.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10112172	2022
Genetics	Identification and specificity validation of unique and antimicrobial resistance genes to trace suspected pathogenic AMR bacteria and to monitor the development of AMR in non-AMR strains in the environment and clinical settings.	Rekadwad BN, Pramod N, Rao MPN, Hashem A, Avila-Quezada GD, Abd Allah EF.	Saudi J Biol Sci	10.1016/j.sjbs.2023.103869	2023
	Metabolic activity of hydro-carbon-oxo-borate on a multispecies subgingival periodontal biofilm: a short communication.	Shibli JA, Rocha TF, Coelho F, de Oliveira Capote TS, Saska S, Melo MA, Pingueiro JMS, de Faveri M, Bueno-Silva B.	Clin Oral Investig	10.1007/s00784-021-03900-0	2021
	Modulation of Neutrophil Extracellular Trap and Reactive Oxygen Species Release by Periodontal Bacteria.	Hirschfeld J, White PC, Milward MR, Cooper PR, Chapple ILC.	Infect Immun	10.1128/iai.00297-17	2017
	Classic vs. Novel Antibacterial Approaches for Eradicating Dental Biofilm as Adjunct to Periodontal Debridement: An Evidence-Based Overview.	Abdulkareem A, Abdulbaqi H, Gul S, Milward M, Chasib N, Alhashimi R.	Antibiotics (Basel)	10.3390/antibiotics11010009	2021
Pathogenicity	Effect of smokeless tobacco products on human oral bacteria growth and viability.	Liu M, Jin J, Pan H, Feng J, Cerniglia CE, Yang M, Chen H.	Anaerobe	10.1016/j.anaerobe.2016.10.006	2016
	Effects of azithromycin, metronidazole, amoxicillin, and metronidazole plus amoxicillin on an in vitro polymicrobial subgingival biofilm model.	Soares GM, Teles F, Starr JR, Feres M, Patel M, Martin L, Teles R.	Antimicrob Agents Chemother	10.1128/aac.04974-14	2015
	Design and evaluation of useful bacterium-specific PCR primers that amplify genes coding for bacterial 16S rRNA.	Marchesi JR, Sato T, Weightman AJ, Martin TA, Fry JC, Hiom SJ, Dymock D, Wade WG.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.64.2.795-799.1998	1998
	The vaginal microflora in relation to gingivitis.	Persson R, Hitti J, Verhelst R, Vaneechoutte M, Persson R, Hirschi R, Weibel M, Rothen M, Temmerman M, Paul K, Eschenbach D.	BMC Infect Dis	10.1186/1471-2334-9-6	2009
Phylogeny	Differentiation of Campylobacter coli, Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter lari, and Campylobacter upsaliensis by a multiplex PCR developed from the nucleotide sequence of the lipid A gene lpxA.	Klena JD, Parker CT, Knibb K, Ibbitt JC, Devane PM, Horn ST, Miller WG, Konkel ME.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.42.12.5549-5557.2004	2004
Metabolism	Characterization of ecotin homologs from Campylobacter rectus and Campylobacter showae.	Thomas C, Nothaft H, Yadav R, Fodor C, Alemka A, Oni O, Bell M, Rada B, Szymanski CM.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0244031	2020
Phylogeny	Isolation and characterization of Campylobacter massiliensis sp. nov., a novel Campylobacter species detected in a gingivitis subject.	Antezack A, Boxberger M, Rolland C, Ben Khedher M, Monnet-Corti V, La Scola B	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005039	2021
Phylogeny	Campylobacter showae sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity.	Etoh Y, Dewhirst FE, Paster BJ, Yamamoto A, Goto N	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-43-4-631	1993

References

#8100	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19458
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#23068	Yumiko Etoh,Floyd E. Dewhirst,Bruce J. Paster,Ayako Yamamoto,Nobuichi Goto: Campylobacter showae sp. nov., Isolated from the Human Oral Cavity. IJSEM 43: 631 - 639 1993 ( DOI 10.1099/00207713-43-4-631 , PubMed 7694633 )
#40897	; Curators of the CIP;
#49981	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 30254
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68373	Automatically annotated from API CAM .
#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 .
#122592	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103970
#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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Campylobacter showae (DSM 19458, ATCC 51146, CCUG 30254)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Enzymes

API CAM

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_004803815

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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