Chlamydia felis (DSM 26967, ATCC VR-120, Fe/Pn-1)

Name: Chlamydia felis (DSM 26967, ATCC VR-120, Fe/Pn-1)
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BacDive ID 22958

Type strain

Strain Designation Fe/Pn-1, FP Baker

Culture col. no. DSM 26967 ATCC VR-120 Fe/Pn-1 FP Baker ATCC VR120

NCBI tax ID(s) 83556

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- D. Vanrompay, Molecular Biotechnol., Ghent Univ., Belgium; FP Baker <- A. Andersen, Nat. Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa, USA

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Chlamydia felis Fe/Pn-1 is a bacterium that was isolated from cat lung.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 397220

DSM 26967

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:30:20

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Chlamydiota

Class Chlamydiia

Order Chlamydiales

Family Chlamydiaceae

Genus Chlamydia

Species Chlamydia felis

Full scientific name Chlamydia felis (Everett et al. 1999) Sachse et al. 2015

Synonyms (1)

Chlamydophila felis

Morphology

Colony morphology

19028

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
19028	CULTIVATION MEDIUM FOR CHLAMYDIAE (DSMZ Medium 1193)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CULTIVATION MEDIUM FOR CHLAMYDIAE (DSMZ Medium 1193) Composition: Aminoacids Fetal bovine serum IMDM-Medium

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
19028	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Felidae (Cat)
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways	#Lung

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
19028	cat lung	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence D85701 (>99% sequence identity) for Chlamydia felis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	34
Soil Samples	12
Animal Samples	105
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	153

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
19028	2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Chlamydophila felis FP baker (VR-120) 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	U68457	3529		83556
19028	Chlamydophila felis gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, strain: Fe/Pn-1 (= ATCC VR120)	D85701	1548		83556

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	Year
Enzymology	Chlamydophila felis: plasmid detection in Italian isolates.	Di Francesco A, Donati M, Salvatore D, Cevenini R, Di Paolo M, Baldelli R	New Microbiol	2010

References

#19028	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 26967
#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 )
#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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Chlamydia felis (DSM 26967, ATCC VR-120, Fe/Pn-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

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