Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Pseudomonadota (Proteobacteria), Class Betaproteobacteria, Order Burkholderiales, Family Burkholderiaceae, Genus
Caballeronia, Caballeronia temeraria (Peeters et al. 2016) Dobritsa et al. 2017.
Old synonym: Burkholderia temeraria Peeters et al. 2016.
Gram-negative rods with rounded ends, ~ 1 μm in length, occuring as single units or
in pairs. Non-motile.
Colonies on trypticase soy agar after 48h incubation at 28 ºC are round, less than 1
mm in diameter, smooth, shiny, non-translucent, with entire margins and a white-
creamy color. Grows on MacConkey agar. Growth occurs at 15-37 ºC and at pH 6-7 in
nutrient broth at 28 ºC. Grows aerobically (anaerobic growth not tested).
Isolated from Fadogia homblei rhizosphere soil in South Africa in 2013.
Undetermined.
- Dobritsa, A. P. and Samadpour, M. 2016. Transfer of eleven species of the genus Burkholderia to the genus Paraburkholderia and
proposal of Caballeronia gen. nov. to accommodate twelve species of the genera Burkholderia and Paraburkholderia Int. J. Syst.
Evol. Microbiol., 66, 2836-2846.
- Peeters, C., Meier-Kolthoff, J. P., Verheyde, B., De Brandt, E., Cooper, V. S. and Vandamme, P. 2016. Phylogenomic study of
Burkholderia glathei-like organisms, proposal of 13 novel Burkholderia species and emended descriptions of Burkholderia
sordidicola, Burkholderia zhejiangensis, and Burkholderia grimmiae. Front. Microbiol. 7, 877.
Description is based mostly on API 20 NE and API ZYM results.
Positive results for acid and alkaline phosphatase, catalase, C4 lipase, leucine arylamidase, oxidase and phosphoamidase (weak).
Can utilize glucose, arabinose, mannose, mannitol, N-acetylglucosamine, gluconate, malate, citrate (weak) and phenylacetate.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, casein hydrolysis, cystine arylamidase, esculin hydrolysis, alpha-fucosidase, gelatin
liquefaction, alpha-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, alpha- and beta-glucosidase, indole production, C8 lipase, C14 lipase,
alpha-mannosidase, nitrate reduction, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, starch hydrolysis, Tween 60 or 80 hydrolysis, trypsin,
chymotrypsin, urease, valine arylamidase and fermentation of glucose.
No utilization of maltose, caprate and adipate.
(c) Costin Stoica