Burkholderia contaminans BT
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Bacteria
- phylum
- Proteobacteria
- class
- Gammaproteobacteria
- order
- Burkholderiales
- family
- Burkholderiaceae
- genus
- Burkholderia
- species
- Burkholderia contaminans
description
Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, and white colored after 3 days of incubation at 25 ℃ on R 2 A. Positive for arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatinase activities. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, and β - galactosidase activity. D- Glucose, L- arabinose, potassium gluconate, malic acid, and trisodium citrate and are utilized. Does not utilize D- mannose, D- mannitol, N - acetylglucosamine, D- maltose, capric acid, adipic acid, and phenylacetic acid. Strain BT 358 (= NIBRBAC 000502988) was isolated from a soil sample, Jeju, Korea.