Clostridium cochlearium (DSM 3588, ATCC 19407, NCTC 2909)

Name: Clostridium cochlearium (DSM 3588, ATCC 19407, NCTC 2909)
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BacDive ID 2574

Type strain

Strain Designation 446

Culture col. no. DSM 3588 ATCC 19407 NCTC 2909 CCUG 4221 446

NCBI tax ID(s) 1494

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG

History DSMZ <- NCTC <- I. C. Hall, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA; 446 (Clostridium tetanomorphum) {1929}

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Clostridium cochlearium 446 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from saliva.

anaerobe genome sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 45623

ATCC 19407,NCTC 2909,DSM 3588,CCUG 4221

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:30

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium cochlearium

Full scientific name Clostridium cochlearium (Douglas et al. 1919) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

Clostridium lentoputrescens
"Bacillus cochlearius"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Clostridium cochlearium** (8)	Type strain
2572	C. cochlearium 1243, McClung, 1243, McClung, 10041, DSM ... (type strain)
130920	C. cochlearium G7K4R3-PYG-96, DSM 29358
2570	C. cochlearium H25alpha, DSM 666
2571	C. cochlearium Zi7, DSM 667
2573	C. cochlearium 998, DSM 2153, ATCC 17794, NCIMB 10629, JCM ...
152177	C. cochlearium CCUG 45978
158910	C. cochlearium Med78_4-601-WT-1, DSM 107247
174395	C. cochlearium NLAE-zl-C224, DSM 116330

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1413	WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 339)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 339) Composition: dehydrated Wilkins-Chalgren medium 33.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.3 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water
1413	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110) 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 D-Glucose 4.0 g/l Starch 1.0 g/l Maltose 1.0 g/l Cellobiose 1.0 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 Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Vitamin K1 NaOH Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1413	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
1413	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	90.154
125439	anaerobe	97.819

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body Product	#Oral cavity and Airways	#Saliva

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
1413	saliva
44725	Saliva

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1413	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German 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	52363_D02 assembly for Clostridium cochlearium NCTC2909	contig	GCA_900446985	1494.15	2811995238	1494	75.59

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: 52363_D02 assembly for Clostridium cochlearium NCTC2909
BV-BRC: 1494.15

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	97.82	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	67.18	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	62.59	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	51.52	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Clostridium cochlearium strain NCTC2909
PATRIC: 1494.15

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	62.86	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	90.15	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	72.96	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	98.66	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	80.21	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	75.04	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Two pathways of glutamate fermentation by anaerobic bacteria.	Buckel W, Barker HA.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.117.3.1248-1260.1974	1974

References

#1413	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3588
#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 )
#44725	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 4221
#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) .
#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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Clostridium cochlearium (DSM 3588, ATCC 19407, NCTC 2909)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

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Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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