Entry
Org code
pdc
Name
Clostridioides difficile 630 (Clostridium difficile 630)
Annotation
yesShow organism
Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Bacillota; Clostridia; Peptostreptococcales; Peptostreptococcaceae; Clostridioides
Taxonomy Genome browser
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
BRITE hierarchy
Data source
Keywords
Human pathogen
Disease
H00338 Pseudomembranous colitis
Comment
Gram-positive, anaerobic, and spore-forming bacterium.
Known as a virulent and multidrug-resistant human pathogen causing antibiotic-associated disease.
Isolated in 1982 from a hospital patient with severe pseudomembranous colitis in Zurich, Switzerland.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
Length
4274782
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 4274782
Number of protein genes: 3770
Number of RNA genes: 130
Created
2015
Reference
Authors
Riedel T, Bunk B, Thurmer A, Sproer C, Brzuszkiewicz E, Abt B, Gronow S, Liesegang H, Daniel R, Overmann J
Title
Genome Resequencing of the Virulent and Multidrug-Resistant Reference Strain Clostridium difficile 630.
Journal