Escherichia fergusonii (DSM 25831, Ef137)

Name: Escherichia fergusonii (DSM 25831, Ef137)
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BacDive ID 4931

Type strain

Strain Designation Ef137

Culture col. no. DSM 25831 Ef137

NCBI tax ID(s) 564

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- V. Savini, Spirito Santo Hospital, Microbiology and Virology; Ef137

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Escherichia fergusonii Ef137 is a human pathogen that was isolated from stool sample.

human pathogen genome sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 401795

DSM 25831

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:50

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Enterobacterales

Family Enterobacteriaceae

Genus Escherichia

Species Escherichia fergusonii

Full scientific name Escherichia fergusonii Farmer et al. 1985

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Escherichia fergusonii** (24)	Type strain
4930	E. fergusonii 568-73, DSM 13698, ATCC 35469, CDC 0568-73, ... (type strain)
137175	E. fergusonii 3296-73, CIP 104948, ATCC 35470
143723	E. fergusonii CCUG 21144
143724	E. fergusonii CCUG 21145
143725	E. fergusonii CCUG 21146
143726	E. fergusonii CCUG 21147
143768	E. fergusonii CCUG 21203
143769	E. fergusonii CCUG 21204
145930	E. fergusonii CCUG 29925
145931	E. fergusonii CCUG 29926
145932	E. fergusonii CCUG 29927
145933	E. fergusonii CCUG 29928
145934	E. fergusonii CCUG 29929
145935	E. fergusonii CCUG 29930
145936	E. fergusonii CCUG 29931
145937	E. fergusonii CCUG 29932
145938	E. fergusonii CCUG 29933
145939	E. fergusonii CCUG 29934
145940	E. fergusonii CCUG 29935
145941	E. fergusonii CCUG 29936
145942	E. fergusonii CCUG 29937
145943	E. fergusonii CCUG 29938
165317	E. fergusonii JCM 5897, ATCC 35471, CDC 1016-74
165318	E. fergusonii JCM 5899, ATCC 35473, CDC 3458-74

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	99.75

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
18119	NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water
18119	TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water
18119	COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693) Composition: Defibrinated sheep blood 50.0 g/l Columbia agar base

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
18119	positive	growth	28
18119	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68368	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E
68368	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation	from API 20E
68368	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E
68368	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	25094 ChEBI	lysine	+	degradation	from API 20E
68368	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	+	degradation	from API 20E
68368	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	+	energy source	from API 20E
68368	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
68368	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	from API 20E
68368	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide	from API 20E
68368	35581 ChEBI	indole	from API 20E

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Indole test
68368	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-		from API 20E
68368	35581 ChEBI	indole		+	from API 20E

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68368	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20E
68368	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API 20E
68368	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1	from API 20E
68368	gelatinase	-		from API 20E
68368	lysine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.18	from API 20E
68368	ornithine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.17	from API 20E
68368	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	from API 20E
68368	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20E

API 20E

@ref	ONPG	ADH (Arg)	LDC (Lys)	ODC	CIT	H2S productionH2S	URE	TDA (Trp)	IND	Acetoin production (Voges Proskauer test)VP	GEL	GLU	MAN	INO	Sor	RHA	SAC	MEL	AMY	ARA	OX	Nitrite productionNO2	Reduction to N2N2	MotilityMOB	Growth on MacConkey mediumMAC	OF-O	OF-F
18119	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	-	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
18119	stool sample	Abruzzo, Pescara (PE)	Italy	ITA	Europe	42.4667	14.2167 42.4667/14.2167

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
18119			2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM1904754v1 assembly for Escherichia fergusonii FDAARGOS 1438	complete	GCA_019047545	564.167	564	96.84

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Escherichia fergusonii strain FDAARGOS 1438 strain Not applicable
PATRIC: 564.167

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.75	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.13	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.88	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	70.76	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	98.00	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	76.71	no

Literature

References

#18119	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 25831
#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 )
#68368	Automatically annotated from API 20E .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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 )
#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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