Delftia

Delftia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Comamonadaceae
Genus:	; Wen et al. 1999
Type species
	Delftia acidovorans;

Delftia is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria that was first isolated from soil in Delft, Netherlands. The species is named after both the city, and in honor of pioneering research in the field of bacteriology that occurred in Delft. Cells in the genus Delftia are rod shaped and straight or slightly curved. Cells occur singly or in pairs, are 0.4–0.8ɥM wide and 2.5–4.1 μm long. Delftia species are motile by flagella, nonsporulating, and chemo-organotrophic.^[1]

^ Wen, Aimin; Fegan, Mark; Hayward, Chris; Chakraborty, Sukumar; Sly, Lindsay I. (1999). "Phylogenetic relationships among members of the Comamonadaceae, and description of Delftia acidovorans (den Dooren de Jong 1926 and Tamaoka et al. 1987) gen. nov., comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 49 (2): 567–576. doi:10.1099/00207713-49-2-567. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 10319477.

[1] Wen, Aimin; Fegan, Mark; Hayward, Chris; Chakraborty, Sukumar; Sly, Lindsay I. (1999). "Phylogenetic relationships among members of the Comamonadaceae, and description of Delftia acidovorans (den Dooren de Jong 1926 and Tamaoka et al. 1987) gen. nov., comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 49 (2): 567–576. doi:10.1099/00207713-49-2-567. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 10319477.

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