Legionella jamestowniensis (DSM 19215, ATCC 35298, CCUG 29669)

Name: Legionella jamestowniensis (DSM 19215, ATCC 35298, CCUG 29669)
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BacDive ID 6747

Type strain

Strain Designation JA-26-G1-E2, JA-26-GI-E2

Culture col. no. DSM 19215 ATCC 35298 CCUG 29669 CIP 103845 NCTC 11981 2 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1122163 455

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

History <- H. E. Müller <- ATCC <- G. W. Gorman; JA-26-G1-E2 CIP <- 1993, R.F. Benson, CDC: strain JA-26-GI-E2 <- G.W. Gorman

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Legionella jamestowniensis JA-26-G1-E2 is a Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from wet soil.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 125848

ATCC 35298,NCTC 11981,CCUG 29669,CIP 103845,JCM 7590,DSM 19215

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:18

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella jamestowniensis

Full scientific name Legionella jamestowniensis Brenner et al. 1985

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
120306	negative	rod-shaped
125439	negative		99.6
125438	negative		97.479

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
7973	BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BCYE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base
41700	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)
120306	CIP Medium 23	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
7973	positive	growth	37
41700	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	99.6

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.4

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Sampling date
7973	wet soil	Jamestown	USA	USA	North America
49705	Wet soil					1979
120306	Environment, Wet soil	Jamestown, New York	United States of America	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence Z49726 (>99% sequence identity) for Legionella from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	11
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	15

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7973	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
120306		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	IMG-taxon 2600255316 annotated assembly for Legionella jamestowniensis DSM 19215	scaffold	GCA_900114725	1122163.4	2600255316	1122163	75.53
66792	Leg_jamestowniensis_JA-26-G1-E2.v1 assembly for Legionella jamestowniensis JA-26-G1-E2	scaffold	GCA_900640205	455.12	8005481206	455	71.46
66792	ASM146774v1 assembly for Legionella jamestowniensis JA-26-G1-E2	scaffold	GCA_001467745	455.5	2695420441	455	69.94

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Legionella jamestowniensis strain MDC1586 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JF720376	525	455
20218	L.jamestownensis gene for ribosomal RNA, small subunit	Z49726	1414	455
7973	L.jamestowniensis (ATCC 35298) gene for 16S rRNA	X73409	1468	455

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Legionella jamestowniensis DSM 19215
NCBI: GCA_900114725

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.40	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	60.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.60	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Legionella jamestowniensis DSM 19215 DSM 19215
NCBI: GCA_900114725.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.48	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.21	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	64.99	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.55	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.49	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	60.11	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Draft Genome Sequence of Legionella jamestowniensis Isolated from a Patient with Chronic Respiratory Disease.	Prochazka B, Indra A, Hasenberger P, Blaschitz M, Wagner L, Wewalka G, Sorschag S, Schmid D, Ruppitsch W.	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomea.01007-16	2016
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
Biotechnology	Detection of Salmonella spp. in oysters by PCR.	Bej AK, Mahbubani MH, Boyce MJ, Atlas RM.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.60.1.368-373.1994	1994
Phylogeny	Phylogenetic analysis of the bacterial communities in marine sediments.	Gray JP, Herwig RP.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.62.11.4049-4059.1996	1996

References

#7973	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19215
#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 )
#41700	; Curators of the CIP;
#49705	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 29669
#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) .
#66793	Mukherjee et al.: GEBA: 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. 35: 676 - 683 2017 ( DOI 10.1038/nbt.3886 , PubMed 28604660 )
#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 .
#120306	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103845
#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 jamestowniensis (DSM 19215, ATCC 35298, CCUG 29669)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Multimedia

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_900114725

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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