Clostridium sp. (DSM 3268, London)

Name: Clostridium sp. (DSM 3268, London)
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BacDive ID 507

Type strain

Strain Designation London

Culture col. no. DSM 3268 London

NCBI tax ID(s) 1506

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- S. J. Pirt, Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill, London, U. K.; London (Anaeroplasma sp.)

London is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from methanogenic, glucose-limited chemostat culture inoculated with digester sludge.

anaerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

DSM 3268 London

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:03

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Full scientific name Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (6)

"Pseudoclostridium"
"Lachnoclostridium"
Anaerobacter
"Inflabilis"
Thomasclavelia
"Erysipelatoclostridium"

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1337	WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 339)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 339) Composition: dehydrated Wilkins-Chalgren medium 33.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.3 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1337	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1337

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Biodegradation	-
#Engineered	#Laboratory	#Lab enrichment
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Mud (Sludge)
#Condition	#Anoxic (anaerobic)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1337	methanogenic, glucose-limited chemostat culture inoculated with digester sludge	London, Twickenham	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	Year
Pathogenicity	Necrotizing anaerobic infections.	Bocking JK, Holliday RL, Duff JH	Can J Surg	1981

References

#1337	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3268
#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 )

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Clostridium sp. (DSM 3268, London)

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

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

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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