Legionella bozemanae (DSM 25295, ATCC 35545, CCUG 16416)

Name: Legionella bozemanae (DSM 25295, ATCC 35545, CCUG 16416)
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BacDive ID 6707

Type strain

Strain Designation Toronto-3

Culture col. no. DSM 25295 ATCC 35545 CCUG 16416 NCTC 11975 Toronto-3 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 447

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

History <- H. E. Müller; ATCC 35545 <- ATCC <- S. Toma <- P. Tang; Toronto-3 CIP <- 1993, C. Tram, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France <- ATCC <- S. Toma: strain Toronto-3 <- P.W. Tang

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Legionella bozemanae Toronto-3 is a microaerophile bacterium that was isolated from lung aspirate.

microaerophile 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 41148

ATCC 35545,NCTC 11975,CCUG 16416,CIP 103873,DSM 25295

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:17

Domain Bacteria

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
6706	L. bozemanae ALLO1, WIGA, DSM 16523, ATCC 33217, CCUG ... (type strain)
146603	L. bozemanae CCUG 31569
153235	L. bozemanae CCUG 48836
153295	L. bozemanae CCUG 49017
158042	L. bozemanae R54, DSM 109129

Morphology

Colony morphology

17987

Incubation period1-2 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
17987	BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BCYE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base
38485	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)
116983	CIP Medium 23	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17987	positive	growth	37
38485	positive	growth	37
46479	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
17987	microaerophile
46479	microaerophile

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
17987	catalase	+	1.11.1.6

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

46479

Fatty acid	Percentage	ECL
C15:0 ANTEISO	25.9	14.711
C16:1 ω7c	15.7	15.819
C16:0	13.9	16
C17:0 CYCLO	12.2	16.888
C16:0 iso	10	15.626
C17:0 anteiso	7.7	16.722
C17:0	3.2	17
C14:0 ISO	2.7	13.618
C15:0	1.9	15
C18:0	1.7	18
C15:1 ω6c	1.6	14.856
C16:1 ω5c	1.2	15.908
C17:0 iso	0.9	16.629
C19:0	0.7	19
C20:0	0.5	20
C14:0	0.4	14

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways	#Lung
#Host Body Product	#Fluids	#Aspirate

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17987	lung aspirate	Toronto	Canada	CAN	North America
46479	Lung aspirate	Toronto	Canada	CAN	North America
116983	Lung aspirate	Toronto, Ontario	Canada	CAN	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17987	2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
116983	2	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	L.bozemanii gene for ribosomal RNA, small subunit	Z49718	1418		447

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Pathogenicity	Susceptibility of Legionella strains to the chlorinated biocide, monochloramine.	Jakubek D, Guillaume C, Binet M, Leblon G, DuBow M, Le Brun M.	Microbes Environ	10.1264/jsme2.me12205	2013

References

#17987	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 25295
#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 )
#38485	; Curators of the CIP;
#46479	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 16416
#116983	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103873
#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 25295, ATCC 35545, CCUG 16416)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Enzymes

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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