Eubacterium tortuosum (DSM 3987, ATCC 25548, VPI 1084B)

Name: Eubacterium tortuosum (DSM 3987, ATCC 25548, VPI 1084B)
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BacDive ID 5447

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 3987 ATCC 25548 VPI 1084B

NCBI tax ID(s) 39494

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- ATCC <- L.V. Holdeman, VPI 1084B

Eubacterium tortuosum DSM 3987 is an anaerobe human pathogen that was isolated from turkey enteritis.

anaerobe human pathogen 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

DSM 3987 ATCC 25548 VPI 1084B

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:58

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Eubacteriaceae

Genus Eubacterium

Species Eubacterium tortuosum

Full scientific name Eubacterium tortuosum (Debono 1912) Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (3)

"Absiella tortuosa"
"Absiella tortuosum"
"Bacillus tortuosus"

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1557

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Infection	#Inflammation
#Host	#Birds
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract

Isolation

1557

Sample typeturkey enteritis

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence L34683 (>99% sequence identity) for Absiella tortuosum subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	270
Soil Samples	194
Animal Samples	11236
Plant Samples	85
Total Samples	11785

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1557			2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Eubacterium tortuosum strain ATCC 25548 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	L34683	1485		39494

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Description of a new member of the family Erysipelotrichaceae: Dakotella fusiforme gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from healthy human feces.	Ghimire S, Wongkuna S, Scaria J.	PeerJ	10.7717/peerj.10071	2020
Phylogeny	Amedibacterium intestinale gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human faeces, and reclassification of Eubacterium dolichum Moore et al. 1976 (Approved Lists 1980) as Amedibacillus dolichus gen. nov., comb. nov.	Ikeyama N, Toyoda A, Morohoshi S, Kunihiro T, Murakami T, Mori H, Iino T, Ohkuma M, Sakamoto M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004215	2020
Phylogeny	Description of Absiella argi gen. nov., sp. nov., and transfer of Eubacterium dolichum and Eubacterium tortuosum to the genus Absiella as Absiella dolichum comb. nov. and Absiella tortuosum comb. nov.	Paek J, Shin Y, Kim JS, Kim H, Kook JK, Paek WK, Chang YH	Anaerobe	10.1016/j.anaerobe.2017.07.006	2017

References

#1557	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3987
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .

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Eubacterium tortuosum (DSM 3987, ATCC 25548, VPI 1084B)

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

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