
Name DOI	10.1601/nm.2584
Name	Pseudomonas cepacia (ex Burkholder 1950) Palleroni and Holmes 1981
Name Status	Validly Published
Current Authority	(ex Burkholder 1950) Palleroni and Holmes 1981
Preferred Name	Burkholderia cepacia
Taxonomic Rank	species
Nomenclatural Type (designated strain)	Refer to the type exemplar.

Taxonomy	10.1601/tx.2584
Type Strain representative organism	Ballard 717^T (=NCTC 10743 =Burkholder =717-ICPB 25 =ATCC 25416)


Proper Form	Pseudomonas cepacia (ex Burkholder 1950) Palleroni and Holmes 1981
Nomenclatural History	The species Pseudomonas cepacia was originally described by Burkholder 1950. It pre-dated the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names but was excluded from those lists. In 1981 the name was revived and validly published by Palleroni and Holmes. In 1992, Yabuuchi et al. established Pseudomonas cepacia as the basonym of Burkholderia cepacia (Palleroni and Holmes 1981) Yabuuchi et al. 1993 .

Citation	When referring specifically to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier. Name Abstract for Pseudomonas cepacia (ex Burkholder 1950) Palleroni and Holmes 1981.April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.2584.
Source File	10.1601/nm.2584.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 9, 2010.

References

Palleroni NJ, Holmes B. Pseudomonas cepacia sp. nov., nom. rev. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1981; 31:479-481. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-31-4-479.
Burkholder WH. Sour skin, a bacterial rot of onion bulbs. Phytopathology 1950; 40:115-117.
Yabuuchi E, Kosako Y, Oyaizu H, Yano I, Hotta H, Hashimoto Y, Ezaki T, Arakawa M. Proposal of Burkholderia gen. nov. and transfer of seven species of the genus Pseudomonas homology group II to the new genus, with the type species Burkholderia cepacia (Palleroni and Holmes 1981) comb. nov. Microbiol Immunol 1992; 36:1251-1275. [PubMed].