Clostridium tertium (DSM 748, ATCC 19405, NCTC 541)

Name: Clostridium tertium (DSM 748, ATCC 19405, NCTC 541)
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BacDive ID 2723

Type strain

Strain Designation P.II.Col.54, LRA 231 11 78

Culture col. no. DSM 748 ATCC 19405 NCTC 541 CCUG 4219 P.II.Col.54 7 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1559

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM CIP

History <- K. Kieslich <- ATCC <- NCTC <- M. Robertson <- G.F. Petrie, P.II.Col.54 ATCC 19405 <-- NCTC 541 <-- M. Robertson <-- G. F. Petrie (P.II.Col.54). CIP <- 1993, R. Mercier, bioMérieux, La Balme les Grottes, France: strain LRA 231 11 78 <- Anatylab, Plainview, USA

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Clostridium tertium P.II.Col.54 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive human pathogen that was isolated from Carcino-sarcomatous tumor of the respiratory tract.

Gram-positive rod-shaped anaerobe mesophilic human pathogen 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 92818

ATCC 19405,NCTC 541,CCUG 4219,NCIB 541,DSM 748,CIP 103696,JCM 11009,JCM 3813,CCRC 10650,IAM 14195,NCIMB 541,BCRC 10650

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:22

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium tertium

Full scientific name Clostridium tertium (Henry 1917) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

"Bacillus tertius"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Clostridium tertium** (39)	Type strain
2724	C. tertium 795, DSM 2485, ATCC 14573, IAM 14196, NCIB ... (type strain)
2722	C. tertium DSM 662
100559	C. tertium STI09046(IMET), RIA 762
137785	C. tertium 768.85, CIP 101897
137789	C. tertium 931.85, CIP 101987
137989	C. tertium 383-86, CIP 102392, JCM 11057
144030	C. tertium CCUG 22430
144308	C. tertium CCUG 24300
144837	C. tertium CCUG 26741
145375	C. tertium CCUG 28317
145463	C. tertium CCUG 28600
145829	C. tertium CCUG 29731
146211	C. tertium CCUG 30614
146539	C. tertium CCUG 31397
146664	C. tertium CCUG 31749
147132	C. tertium CCUG 32918
147149	C. tertium CCUG 32953
147161	C. tertium CCUG 32972
147833	C. tertium CCUG 34337
148745	C. tertium CCUG 35891
148976	C. tertium CCUG 36667
149053	C. tertium CCUG 36791
149569	C. tertium CCUG 37977
149781	C. tertium CCUG 38387
149806	C. tertium CCUG 38446
150661	C. tertium CCUG 41891
150841	C. tertium CCUG 42542 A
151189	C. tertium CCUG 43425
151207	C. tertium CCUG 43469
151309	C. tertium CCUG 43710
151585	C. tertium CCUG 44387
152821	C. tertium CCUG 47709
153980	C. tertium CCUG 51833
154880	C. tertium CCUG 55523
155597	C. tertium CCUG 58293
156249	C. tertium CCUG 60858
156644	C. tertium CCUG 63818
160015	C. tertium Cla-CZ-234, DSM 109055
174180	C. tertium CIMB 05-1277, CRBIP17.48

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
123481	positive	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
421	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
37030	MEDIUM 6 - Columbia agar with 10 % horse blood		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Columbia agar (39.000 g);Horseblood (100.000 ml)
123481	CIP Medium 6	Medium recipe at CIP
123481	CIP Medium 20	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
421	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
37030	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
44723	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
123481	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
421	anaerobe
44723	aerobe
44723	anaerobe
123481	anaerobe

Spore formation

123481

Spore formationno

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
123481	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	degradation
123481	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	degradation
123481	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	degradation
123481	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	degradation
123481	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	degradation
123481	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
123481	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	degradation
123481	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	degradation
123481	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
123481	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	respiration
123481	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
123481	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	degradation
123481	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	degradation

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
123481	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
68382	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
123481	amylase	-
68382	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API zym
123481	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
123481	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
123481	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
123481	DNase	+
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
123481	gelatinase	-
123481	lecithinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API zym
123481	lipase	-
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
123481	oxidase	-
123481	protease	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
123481	tween esterase	+
123481	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
123481	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

67770

Sample typeCarcino-sarcomatous tumor of the respiratory tract

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB689162 (>99% sequence identity) for Clostridium tertium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	386
Soil Samples	574
Animal Samples	6806
Plant Samples	46
Total Samples	7812

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
421			2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
123481			2	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Clostridium tertium gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 3813	AB689162	1477		1559

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Protoplast Regeneration in Clostridium tertium: Isolation of Derivatives with High-Frequency Regeneration.	Knowlton S, Ferchak JD, Alexander JK.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.48.6.1246-1247.1984	1984

References

#421	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 748
#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 )
#37030	; Curators of the CIP;
#44723	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 4219
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#123481	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103696
#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 tertium (DSM 748, ATCC 19405, NCTC 541)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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