Burkholderia mallei

Burkholderia mallei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Burkholderiaceae
Genus:	Burkholderia
Species:	B. mallei
Binomial name
	Burkholderia mallei; (Zopf 1885); Yabuuchi et al. 1993
Synonyms
	Bacillus mallei Zopf 1885 ; Actinobacillus mallei (Zopf 1885) Brumpt 1910 ; Pfeifferella mallei (Zopf 1885) Buchanan 1918 ; Malleomyces mallei (Zopf 1885) Pribram 1933 ; Loefferella mallei (Zopf 1885) Holden 1935 ; Acinetobacter mallei (Zopf 1885) Steel and Cowan 1964 ; Pseudomonas mallei (Zopf 1885) Redfearn et al. 1966

Burkholderia mallei is a Gram-negative, bipolar, aerobic bacterium, a human and animal pathogen of genus Burkholderia causing glanders; the Latin name of this disease (malleus) gave its name to the species causing it. It is closely related to B. pseudomallei, and by multilocus sequence typing it is a subspecies of B. pseudomallei. B. mallei evolved from B. pseudomallei by selective reduction and deletions from the B. pseudomallei genome. Unlike B. pseudomallei and other genus members, B. mallei is nonmotile; its shape is coccobacillary measuring some 1.5–3.0 μm in length and 0.5–1.0 μm in diameter with rounded ends.

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