Legionella gresilensis (DSM 21218, ATCC 700509, CIP 106631)

Name: Legionella gresilensis (DSM 21218, ATCC 700509, CIP 106631)
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BacDive ID 6770

Type strain

Strain Designation Gréoux 11D13

Culture col. no. DSM 21218 ATCC 700509 CIP 106631 CCUG 45920 Greoux 11 D13 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 91823

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

History DSMZ <- CIP; Greoux 11 D13 {2008} <- J. Freney CIP <- 2000, J. Freney, E. Herriot Hosp., Lyon, France: strain Gréoux 11D13 <- CNRL

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Legionella gresilensis Gréoux 11D13 is a microaerophile, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from thermal spring.

Gram-negative rod-shaped microaerophile 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 87702

NCTC 13312,ATCC 700509,CIP 106631,CCUG 45920,DSM 21218

@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 gresilensis

Full scientific name Legionella gresilensis Lo Presti et al. 2001

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
119738	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
15520	BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BCYE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base
34125	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)
119738	CIP Medium 23	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
15520	positive	growth	37
34125	positive	growth	37
56983	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

56983

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

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
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
119738	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3	from API zym
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
119738	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
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
119738	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
15520	thermal spring		France	FRA	Europe
56983	Water,thermal spa	Gréoux	France	FRA	Europe
119738	Environment, Thermal spring	Lyon	France	FRA	Europe	1988

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15520	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
119738	2	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15520	Legionella gresilensis strain Greoux 11 D13 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF122883	1436		91823
124043	Legionella gresilensis strain MDC1599 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	JF720417	525		91823

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
15520	33	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Legionella gresilensis sp. nov. and Legionella beliardensis sp. nov., isolated from water in France.	Lo Presti F, Riffard S, Meugnier H, Reyrolle M, Lasne Y, Grimont PA, Grimont F, Benson RF, Brenner DJ, Steigerwalt AG, Etienne J, Freney J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-51-6-1949	2001

References

#15520	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21218
#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 )
#34125	; Curators of the CIP;
#56983	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 45920
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#119738	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 106631
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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 gresilensis (DSM 21218, ATCC 700509, CIP 106631)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Enzymes

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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