Desulfovibrio giganteus (DSM 4370, VKM B-1762, STg)

Name: Desulfovibrio giganteus (DSM 4370, VKM B-1762, STg)
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BacDive ID 4081

Type strain

Strain Designation STg

Culture col. no. DSM 4370 VKM B-1762 STg

NCBI tax ID(s) 181662

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- J.-L. Garcia, Université de Provence, Marseille, France; STg <- A. Brauman {1987}

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Desulfovibrio giganteus STg is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from gut, soil-feeding termite Cubitermes sp..

anaerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47839

DSM 4370,VKM B-1762

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:38

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfovibrionaceae

Genus Desulfovibrio

Species Desulfovibrio giganteus

Full scientific name Desulfovibrio giganteus corrig. Esnault et al. 1988

Synonyms (1)

Desulfobacter giganteus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Desulfovibrio giganteus** (1)	Type strain
4082	D. giganteus 8601, DSM 4123 (type strain)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1551	BRACKISH WATER DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 410)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BRACKISH WATER DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 410) Composition: NaCl 10.0 g/l Na-DL-lactate 2.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 2.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l NH4Cl 1.0 g/l Na2SO4 1.0 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l Na-thioglycolate 0.1 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.1 g/l Ascorbic acid 0.1 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.00049 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
1551	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1551

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Stomach

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location
1551	gut, soil-feeding termite Cubitermes sp.	Cubitermes	Africa, Mayombe rainforest

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1551	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
1551	Desulfovibrio giganteus DSM 4370 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF418170	1474		181662

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
A persistent and diverse airway microbiota present during chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations.	Huang YJ, Kim E, Cox MJ, Brodie EL, Brown R, Wiener-Kronish JP, Lynch SV.	OMICS	10.1089/omi.2009.0100	2010

References

#1551	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 4370
#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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Desulfovibrio giganteus (DSM 4370, VKM B-1762, STg)

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

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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