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Burkholderia multivorans

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Species of bacterium
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Burkholderia multivorans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Burkholderiaceae
Genus: Burkholderia
Species: B. multivorans
Binomial name
Burkholderia multivorans
Vandamme et al. 1997

Burkholderia multivorans is a species in the phylum Pseudomonadota. The cells are rod-shaped. It is known to cause human disease, such as colonisation of the lung in cystic fibrosis.

References

  1. Chu, Karen K.; MacDonald, Kelly L.; Davidson, Donald J.; Speert, David P. (October 2004). "Persistence of Burkholderia multivorans within the Pulmonary Macrophage in the Murine Lung". Infect Immun. 72 (10): 6142–7. doi:10.1128/IAI.72.10.6142-6147.2004. PMC 517555. PMID 15385520.

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Taxon identifiers
Burkholderia multivorans


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