Name: Escherichia fergusonii Ef137
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 4931

Type strain:

Species: Escherichia fergusonii

Strain Designation: Ef137

Culture col. no.: DSM 25831

Strain history: <- V. Savini, Spirito Santo Hospital, Microbiology and Virology; Ef137

NCBI tax ID(s): 564 (species)

SI-ID 401795

DSM 25831

Other strains from Escherichia fergusonii

Section

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

motile
human pathogen
mesophilic
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Enterobacterales*
	Family	*Enterobacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Escherichia*
	Species	**Escherichia fergusonii**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Escherichia fergusonii Farmer et al. 1985

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.976

[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	yes Confidence in %96.833

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)

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Culture medium

TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)

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Culture medium

COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)

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Culture medium composition

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
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[Ref.: #18119]			growth	30 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %100
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %99.572

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #68368]	amygdalin ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	arginine ChEBI	-	hydrolysis	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	citrate ChEBI	-	assimilation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	D-glucose ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	D-mannitol ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	gelatin ChEBI	-	hydrolysis	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	L-arabinose ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	L-rhamnose ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	lysine ChEBI	+	degradation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	melibiose ChEBI	-	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	myo-inositol ChEBI	-	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	ornithine ChEBI	+	degradation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	sorbitol ChEBI	-	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	sucrose ChEBI	-	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	tryptophan ChEBI	+	energy source	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	urea ChEBI	-	hydrolysis	* from API 20E
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	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #68368]	acetoin ChEBI	no	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	hydrogen sulfide ChEBI	no	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	indole ChEBI	yes	* from API 20E

	Physiological tests	Metabolite	Voges-Proskauer-test	Indole test
[Ref.: #68368]		acetoin ChEBI	-		* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]		indole ChEBI		+	* from API 20E

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #68368]	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	gelatinase	-		* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	lysine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.18	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	ornithine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.17	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	urease	-	3.5.1.5	* from API 20E

API® 20E:

Note that the displayed test results represent raw data and therefore may deviate!

	API ID	beta-GalactosidaseONPG	Arginine dihydrolaseADH (Arg)	Lysine decarboxylaseLDC (Lys)	Ornithine decarboxylaseODC	Citrate utilizationCIT	H2S productionH2S	Urease/urea hydrolysisURE	Tryptophan deaminaseTDA (Trp)	Indole productionIND	Acetoin production (Voges Proskauer test)VP	Gelatinase/gelatin hydrolysisGEL	Fermentation/oxidation of D-glucoseGLU	Fermentation/oxidation of D-mannitolMAN	Fermentation/oxidation of inositolINO	Fermentation/oxidation of sorbitolSor	Fermentation/oxidation of L-rhamnoseRHA	Fermentation/oxidation of sucroseSAC	Fermentation/oxidation of melibioseMEL	Fermentation/oxidation of amygdalinAMY	Fermentation/oxidation of L-arabinoseARA	Cytochrome oxidaseOX	Nitrite productionNO2	Reduction to N2N2	MotilityMOB	Growth on MacConkey mediumMAC	Oxidative catabolisation of D-glucoseOF-O	Fermentation of D-glucoseOF-F
[Ref.: #18119]	18035	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	-	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #18119]	Sample type/isolated from	stool sample
[Ref.: #18119]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Abruzzo, Pescara (PE)
[Ref.: #18119]	Country	Italy
[Ref.: #18119]	Country ISO 3 Code	ITA
[Ref.: #18119]	Continent	Europe
[Ref.: #18119]	Geographic location	42.4667°/14.2167°
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Isolation sources categories

#Host Body Product

#Gastrointestinal tract

#Feces (Stool)

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #18119]	Pathogenicity (human)	yes
[Ref.: #18119]	Pathogenicity (animal)	yes
[Ref.: #18119]	Biosafety level	2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Escherichia fergusonii strain FDAARGOS 1438	564.167	complete	PATRIC	564 tax ID	*

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Escherichia fergusonii strain FDAARGOS 1438 strain Not applicable PATRIC: 564.167
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	100	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Escherichia fergusonii strain FDAARGOS 1438 strain Not applicable PATRIC: 564.167
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	98.355	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	97.206	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	84.959	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	94.145	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	92.187	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	98.539	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	50.625	no
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	88.469	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	89.878	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	yes	91.222	yes

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 25831

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SI-ID 401795

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 )

#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) .

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Automatically annotated from API 20E .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#74428

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID401795.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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