Name: Legionella tunisiensis LegM
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 6789

Type strain:

Species: Legionella tunisiensis

Strain Designation: LegM

Culture col. no.: DSM 24805, CSUR P145

Strain history: <- A. Campocasso, URMITE, Univ. Méditerranée, Marseille, France; LegM <- M. Boughalmi

NCBI tax ID(s): 1034944 (species)

SI-ID 404181

DSM 24805

Section

Legionella tunisiensis LegM is a mesophilic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from water from a hypersaline lake.

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

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Legionellales*
	Family	*Legionellaceae*
	Genus	*Legionella*
	Species	**Legionella tunisiensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Legionella tunisiensis Campocasso et al. 2012

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #30516]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #30516]	Cell length	1.5 µm

[Ref.: #30516]	Cell width	0.54 µm

[Ref.: #30516]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

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Incubation period

2-3 days

[Ref.: #30516]

Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #17778]

Culture medium

BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

[Ref.: #17778]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #17778]			growth	30 °C
[Ref.: #30516]			growth	25-37 °C

[Ref.: #17778]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #30516]	Temperature range	mesophilic

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #17778]	Sample type/isolated from	water from a hypersaline lake
[Ref.: #17778]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Lake Sabkha
[Ref.: #17778]	Country	Tunisia
[Ref.: #17778]	Country ISO 3 Code	TUN
[Ref.: #17778]	Continent	Africa
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Condition	#Saline	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence JF779686 (>99% sequence identity) for Legionella tunisiensis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	61
Soil Samples	65
Animal Samples	5
Plant Samples	16
Total Samples	147

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #17778]

Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #17778]	Legionella tunisiensis strain LegM 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JF779686	1507	ENA	1034944 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Legionella tunisiensis LegM	GCA_000308315	contig	GenBank	1034944 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Legionella tunisiensis LegM	2551306136	draft	JGI IMG/M	1034944 tax ID	*

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 24805, CSUR P145

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SI-ID 404181

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Legionella tunisiensis sp. nov. and Legionella massiliensis sp. nov., isolated from environmental water samples.	Campocasso A, Boughalmi M, Fournous G, Raoult D, La Scola B	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.037853-0	2012	*

References

#17778

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24805

#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 )

#30516

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 #26848 (see below)

#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 .

#76259

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID404181.1 )

#26848

IJSEM 3003 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.037853-0 , PubMed 22307511 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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