Legionella bozemanae (DSM 16523, ATCC 33217, CCUG 11880)

Name: Legionella bozemanae (DSM 16523, ATCC 33217, CCUG 11880)
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BacDive ID 6706

Type strain

Strain Designation ALLO1, WIGA

Culture col. no. DSM 16523 ATCC 33217 CCUG 11880 CIP 103872 NCTC 11368 2 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 447

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

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Legionella bozemanae ALLO1 is a microaerophile, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from human lung tissue after infection of guinea pig and embryonated egg.

Gram-negative rod-shaped microaerophile mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 40397

ATCC 33217,CCUG 11880,NCTC 11368,CIP 103872,DSM 16523,BCRC 17045,CCRC 17045,ACM 3294,CECT 7276

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:48:23

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella bozemanae

Full scientific name Legionella bozemanae corrig. (Garrity et al. 1980) Brenner et al. 1980

Synonyms (2)

Legionella bozemanii
Fluoribacter bozemanae

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Legionella bozemanae** (5)	Type strain
6707	L. bozemanae Toronto-3, DSM 25295, ATCC 35545, CCUG 16416, ...
146603	L. bozemanae CCUG 31569
153235	L. bozemanae CCUG 48836
153295	L. bozemanae CCUG 49017
158042	L. bozemanae R54, DSM 109129

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape
116982	negative	rod-shaped
125438	negative
125439	negative

Colony morphology

6388

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
6388	BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BCYE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base
35543	MEDIUM 23 - for Afipia and Legionella		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Legionella agar (37.000 g);Legionella - enrichment mixture (10.000 ml)
116982	CIP Medium 23	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
6388	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
35543	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
116982	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
6388	microaerophile
125439	obligate aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.767
125439		99.3

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68377	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	builds acid from	from API NH
68377	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	builds acid from	from API NH
68377	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds acid from	from API NH
68377	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	-	degradation	from API NH
68377	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from	from API NH
68377	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API NH
68377	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API NH

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68377	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API NH

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68377	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API NH

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
68382	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
68377	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API NH
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
68377	beta-lactamase	-	3.5.2.6	from API NH
6388	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
116982	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3	from API zym
6388	cytochrome-c oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
68377	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17	from API NH
116982	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	from API zym
68377	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	from API NH
68377	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API NH
68382	valine arylamidase	+		from API zym

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
116982	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

API NH

@ref	PEN	GLU	FRU	MAL	SAC	ODC	URE	LIP	PAL	beta GAL	ProA	GGT	IND
6388	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+/-	-	-
6388	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+/-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Host	#Human
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6388	human lung tissue after infection of guinea pig and embryonated egg	USA	USA	North America
45615	Human lung tissue	USA	USA	North America
116982	Lung tissue

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6388	2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
116982	2	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	48853_H02 assembly for Legionella bozemanae NCTC11368	contig	GCA_900450575	447.10	2808606622	447	76.26
66792	Leg_bozemanae_WIGA.v1 assembly for Legionella bozemanae WIGA	contig	GCA_900640135	447.13	8005477381	447	57.72
66792	ASM164859v1 assembly for Legionella bozemanae ATCC 33217	scaffold	GCA_001648595	447.5		447	55.49
66792	ASM146704v1 assembly for Legionella bozemanae WIGA	scaffold	GCA_001467045	447.4	2660238715	447	53.28

Genome browser: GCA_900450575

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
6388	Fluoribacter bozemanae strain MDC1577 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JF720402	525	447
124043	Fluoribacter bozemanae 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence and tRNA-Ala gene, complete sequence.	KM609990	524	447
124043	Fluoribacter bozemanae 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence and tRNA-Ile gene, complete sequence.	KM609991	564	447

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Legionella bozemanae ATCC 33217
NCBI: GCA_001648595

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	51.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.40	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Legionella bozemanae ATCC 33217
NCBI: GCA_001648595.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.99	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.19	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	70.94	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.77	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.45	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	62.68	no

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Development of a PCR Assay for the Detection of Legionella micdadei in the Environment.	Belanger WN, Bastien M, Berube E, Gagnon M, Sahnoun YG, Dancause V, Boissinot K, Lalancette C, Riel-Roberge C, Jacob-Wagner M, Trottier S, Biot-Pelletier D, Ruest A, Tetreault I, Theriault M, Isabel S.	Infect Dis Rep	10.3390/idr17050131	2025
Rapid Detection and Differentiation of Legionella pneumophila and Non-Legionella pneumophila Species by Using Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Combined With EuNPs-Based Lateral Flow Immunochromatography.	Du J, Ma B, Li J, Wang Y, Dou T, Xu S, Zhang M.	Front Chem	10.3389/fchem.2021.815189	2021
Cross-reactions between Legionella pneumophila (serogroup 1) and twenty-eight other bacterial species, including other members of the family Legionellaceae.	Collins MT, Espersen F, Hoiby N, Cho SN, Friis-Moller A, Reif JS.	Infect Immun	10.1128/iai.39.3.1441-1456.1983	1983

References

#6388	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16523
#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 )
#35543	; Curators of the CIP;
#45615	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 11880
#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) .
#68377	Automatically annotated from API NH .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#116982	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103872
#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 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Legionella bozemanae (DSM 16523, ATCC 33217, CCUG 11880)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API NH

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900450575

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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