Legionella brunensis (DSM 19236, ATCC 43878, CCUG 31114)

Name: Legionella brunensis (DSM 19236, ATCC 43878, CCUG 31114)
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BacDive ID 6739

Type strain

Strain Designation 441-1

Culture col. no. DSM 19236 ATCC 43878 CCUG 31114 CIP 103874 NCTC 12240 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 29422

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

History DSMZ <- H. E. Müller <- ATCC <- H. W. Wilkinson; 441-1 <- V. Drasar CIP <- 1993, C. Tram, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France <- H.W. Wilkinson: strain 441-1 <- V. Drasar

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Legionella brunensis 441-1 is a microaerophile, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from water cooling tower.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 42101

ATCC 43878,CCUG 31114,NCTC 12240,CIP 103874,BCRC 17046,CCRC 17046,DSM 19236

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:29

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella brunensis

Full scientific name Legionella brunensis Wilkinson et al. 1989

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
117062	negative	rod-shaped
125439	negative		98.655
125438	negative		98.494

Colony morphology

7903

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
7903	BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BCYE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base
40842	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)
117062	CIP Medium 23	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
7903	positive	growth	37
40842	positive	growth	37
50430	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
7903	microaerophile
50430	microaerophile
125439	obligate aerobe	98.887

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.903

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Cooling tower
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Continent	Country ISO 3 Code
7903	water cooling tower		Czechoslovakia	Europe
50430	Water,cooling water tower	Vyskov	Czechoslovakia	Europe
117062	Environment, Cooling tower water		Czech Republic	Europe	CZE

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence NR_026520 (>99% sequence identity) for Legionella brunensis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	23
Soil Samples	30
Animal Samples	9
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	63

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7903	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
117062		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	Leg_brunensis_441-1.v1 assembly for Legionella brunensis 441-1	scaffold	GCA_900639795	29422.7	8110518991	29422	64.15
66792	ASM146702v1 assembly for Legionella brunensis ATCC 43878	scaffold	GCA_001467025	29422.6	2690316045	29422	62.68

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Legionella brunensis strain MDC1593 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JF720377	525	29422
20218	L.brunensis (441-1) gene for 16S ribosomal RNA	Z32636	1473	29422
7903	Legionella brunensis strain 441-1 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	NR_026520	1473	29422

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Leg_brunensis_441-1.v1 assembly for Legionella brunensis 441-1
NCBI: GCA_900639795

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.89	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.66	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	53.06	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Legionella brunensis ATCC 43878
NCBI: GCA_001467025.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.49	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.25	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	76.19	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.43	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.29	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	54.04	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Legionella confirmation using real-time PCR and SYTO9 is an alternative to current methodology.	Giglio S, Monis PT, Saint CP.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.71.12.8944-8948.2005	2005
Enzymology	Development and evaluation of Chlamylege, a new commercial test allowing simultaneous detection and identification of Legionella, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae in clinical respiratory specimens by multiplex PCR.	Ginevra C, Barranger C, Ros A, Mory O, Stephan JL, Freymuth F, Joannes M, Pozzetto B, Grattard F.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.43.7.3247-3254.2005	2005
Phylogeny	Legionella moravica sp. nov. and Legionella brunensis sp. nov. isolated from cooling-tower water.	Wilkinson HW, Drasar V, Thacker WL, Benson RF, Schindler J, Potuznikova B, Mayberry WR, Brenner DJ	Ann Inst Pasteur Microbiol	10.1016/0769-2609(88)90102-0	1988

References

#7903	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19236
#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 )
#40842	; Curators of the CIP;
#50430	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 31114
#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) .
#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 .
#117062	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103874
#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 brunensis (DSM 19236, ATCC 43878, CCUG 31114)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900639795

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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