Species ***Burkholderia* *cenocepacia***

Name: Burkholderia cenocepacia Vandamme et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ce.no.ce.pa’ci.a. Gr. masc. adj. kainos, new, recent; N.L. fem. adj. cepacia, specific epithet; N.L. fem. adj. cenocepacia, new (Burkholderia) cepacia

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: burk-hol-DE-ri-a ke-no-ke-PA-ki-a, feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-245; CCM 4899; CCUG 48434; DSM 16553; LMG 16656; NCTC 13227

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF148556 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Vandamme P, Holmes B, Coenye T, Goris J, Mahenthiralingam E, LiPuma JJ, Govan JR. Burkholderia cenocepacia sp. nov.--a new twist to an old story. Res Microbiol 2003; 154:91-96. 🇧🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 92. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:935-937.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 2

Notes:
- 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.16869 (N = 20).
- 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "human pathogen - plant pathogen - biological class of risk plant: 2". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Taiwan has been imported on 2024-11-03. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "P650 = v". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 926 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the species itself.
- 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology (Reading) 2022; 168:0. 🇬🇧
- 🧍 Burkholderia cenocepacia Vandamme et al. 2003 was previously known as Burkholderia cepacia (Palleroni and Holmes 1981) Yabuuchi et al. 1993 genomovar III (recA lineages IIIA, IIIB, IIIC and IIID). Publication: 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. 🇯🇵

Parent taxon: Burkholderia Yabuuchi et al. 1993

Assigned by: Vandamme P, Holmes B, Coenye T, Goris J, Mahenthiralingam E, LiPuma JJ, Govan JR. Burkholderia cenocepacia sp. nov.--a new twist to an old story. Res Microbiol 2003; 154:91-96. 🇧🇪

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Species Burkholderia cenocepacia

Species ***Burkholderia* *cenocepacia***