Table 1.

Differentiation characteristics of strain MSh1^T and type strains of closely related species of Bcc.

Characteristics	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
ACIDIFICATION OF
Sucrose	+	+	+	–	+	–	+	–	+	v	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	–	–	–
Adonitol	–	+	+	+	v	+	–	+	+	v	+	–	+	v	+	+	+	+	+	+
ASSIMILATION OF
N-acetyl-glucosamine	–	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY OF
Arginine decarboxylation	+	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	+	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Lysine decarboxylation	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	–	+	v	+	–	+	+	v	+	+	v	+	–
β-galactosidase	–	+	+	–	+	–	+	+	+	v	+	–	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
FATTY ACID CONTENT
C16:0(%)	31.7	29.8	36.5	28.2	26.8	25.6	19.5	26.1	26.3	28.4	22.9	16.6	17.8	21.2	28.1	26.4	21.9	28.9	20.9	29.0
C17:0cyclo (%)	26.6	22.5	26.1	23.5	17.9	17.8	14.0	16.0	11.3	4.6	13.5	5.7	12.6	1.6	11.7	10.4	5.2	18.2	8.0	17.2
C19:0 cyclo ω8c (%)	16.5	13.7	17.6	19.8	12.5	15.3	5.8	14.8	4.8	1.3	4.7	2.4	9.5	0.4	1.6	3.0	1.8	9.7	4.2	10.0

Species: 1, strain MSh1^T; 2, B. arboris R-24201^T; 3. B. cenocepacia J2315^T; 4, B. lata 383^T; 5, B. cepacia; 6, B. stabilis; 7, B. vietnamiensis; 8, B. dolosa; 9, B. ambifaria; 10, B. anthina; 11, B. pyrrocinia, 12, B. ubonensis; 13, B. latens; 14, B. diffusa; 15, B. seminalis; 16, B. metallica; 17, B. contaminans; 18; B. multivorans; 19, B. pseudomultivorans; 20, B. gladioli.

Data for strain MSh1^T, B. arboris R-24201^T, B. cenocepacia J2315^T, and B. lata 383^T are from this study. Data for the other Bcc species were obtained from Coenye et al. (2001), Henry et al. (2001), Peeters et al. (2013), Vandamme et al. (2002), Vandamme et al. (1997), Vandamme et al. (2000), Vanlaere et al. (2009), and Vanlaere et al. (2008). Data for fatty acid content are percentages of whole-cell fatty acid content. +, >90% of all isolate positive; v, 10–90% position; –, <10% of strains positive.