Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila (DSM 24999, R7, SG7 München)

Name: Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila (DSM 24999, R7, SG7 München)
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BacDive ID 6776

Type strain

Strain Designation R7, SG7 München

Culture col. no. DSM 24999 R7 SG7 München

NCBI tax ID(s) 91891

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- H. E. Müller; SG7 München

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Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R7 is a microaerophile, Gram-negative, ovoid-shaped bacterium of the family Legionellaceae.

Gram-negative ovoid-shaped microaerophile Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 402749

DSM 24999

@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 pneumophila subsp. pneumophila

Full scientific name Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila (Brenner et al. 1979) Brenner et al. 1989

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila** (31)	Type strain
6712	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila Philadelphia-1, DSM 7513, ATCC 33152, WDCM ... (type strain)
6713	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila DSM 25038, SG 2 Togus
6714	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila DSM 25040, SG 3 Bloomington
6715	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R30, LE1 SG10, Leiden 1, DSM 25061, ATCC ...
6716	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R31, Knoxville SG1, DSM 25062, ATCC 33153, ...
6717	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R42, 797-PA-H SG11, 797-PA-H, DSM 25063, ...
6718	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila Knoxville SG1, DSM 25070
6719	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R47, Togus SG 2, Togus 1, DSM 25071, ATCC ...
6720	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R48, Bloomington-2 SG3, Bloomington-2, DSM ...
6721	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R51, Chicago 2 SG 6, Chicago 2, DSM 25182, ...
6722	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R53, Chicago 3 SG8, Concord 3, Concorde 3, ...
6723	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R67, Thacker 570-CO-H, 570-CO-H SG 12, 570-CO-H, ...
6724	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R68, 82A3105, DSM 25225
6725	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila Benson 1169-MN-H, R69, 1169-MN-H SG 14, 1169-MN-H, ...
6774	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R4, SG5 Berlin, DSM 24991
6775	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R6, DSM 24993, SG 7 Berlin
6777	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R8, DSM 25000, SG 8
6778	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R9, DSM 25001, SG 9
6779	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R10, DSM 25019, SG 1 Hamburg
6780	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R11, DSM 25020, SG 1 Philadelphia
6781	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R12, DSM 25021, SG 1 Ludwigshafen
6782	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R52, Bibb Chicago-8, Chicago 8 SG7, Chicago ...
6783	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila Benidorm 030 E, R62, Benidorm SG1, DSM 25199, ...
6784	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila R63, OLDA SG1, OLDA, DSM 25200, ATCC 43109, ...
6785	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila Oxford 4032 E SG 1, DSM 25213, ATCC 43110, ...
6786	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila 77-091436, R65, Bellingham 1 SG1, DSM 25214, ...
24145	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila W872, DSM 27564, NCTC 12821, WDCM 00205, ...
159575	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila Log-297-2, DSM 110441
159576	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila L18-1031-1, DSM 110442
159577	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila W11-321, DSM 110443
159578	L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila W14-589, DSM 110444

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
31230	negative	1.55 µm	0.7 µm	ovoid-shaped

Colony morphology

17817

Incubation period1-2 days

Pigmentation

31230

Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17817	BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BCYE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17817	positive	growth	37
31230	positive	growth	04-37
31230	positive	optimum	26.5

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31230	positive	optimum	7.5
31230	positive	growth	05-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
17817	microaerophile
31230	aerobe

Spore formation

31230

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31230	NaCl	positive	growth	0-10 %
31230	NaCl	positive	optimum	5 %

Observation

31230

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31230	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
31230	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
31230	22653 ChEBI	asparagine	+	carbon source
31230	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
31230	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
31230	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
31230	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
31230	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
31230	25017 ChEBI	leucine	+	carbon source
31230	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
31230	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
31230	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	carbon source
31230	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
31230	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	carbon source
31230	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
17817	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
31230	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
31230	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17817	München	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17817	2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

31230

GC-content (mol%)45

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#17817	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24999
#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 )
#27555	IJSEM 1741 2004 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63096-0 , PubMed 15388738 )
#31230	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #27555
#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 pneumophila subsp. pneumophila (DSM 24999, R7, SG7 München)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

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