Clostridium herbivorans (DSM 14428, ATCC 49925, 54408)

Name: Clostridium herbivorans (DSM 14428, ATCC 49925, 54408)
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BacDive ID 2804

Type strain

Strain Designation 54408

Culture col. no. DSM 14428 ATCC 49925 54408

NCBI tax ID(s) 39479

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- ATCC <- V. H. Varel, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Clay Center, Nebraska, USA; 54408

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Clostridium herbivorans 54408 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from pig large intestine.

anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49554

DSM 14428,ATCC 49925,CIP 104610,VTT E-052845

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:33

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium herbivorans

Full scientific name Clostridium herbivorans Varel et al. 1995

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5348	WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (N2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 339a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (N2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 339a; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: dehydrated Wilkins-Chalgren medium 33.0 g/l Cellobiose 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.3 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5348	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

5348

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Suidae (Pig,Swine)
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Large intestine

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5348	pig large intestine	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5348	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5348	Clostridium herbivorans 16S ribosomal RNA, complete gene	L34418	1481		39479

GC content

5348

GC-content (mol%)38

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Addition of cellulolytic clostridia to the bovine rumen and pig intestinal tract.	Varel VH, Yen JT, Kreikemeier KK.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.61.3.1116-1119.1995	1995
Phylogeny	Clostridium herbivorans sp. nov., a cellulolytic anaerobe from the pig intestine.	Varel VH, Tanner RS, Woese CR	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-45-3-490	1995

References

#5348	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14428
#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 )
#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 herbivorans (DSM 14428, ATCC 49925, 54408)

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

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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