Pluralibacter

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Pluralibacter

| authority = Brady et al. 2013{{cite journal |last1=Brady |first1=C. |last2=Cleenwerck |first2=I. |last3=Venter |first3=S. |last4=Coutinho |first4=T. |last5=De Vos |first5=P. |title=Taxonomic evaluation of the genus Enterobacter based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA): Proposal to reclassify E. nimipressuralis and E. amnigenus into Lelliottia gen. nov. as Lelliottia nimipressuralis comb. nov. and Lelliottia amnigena comb. nov., respectively, E. gergoviae and E. pyrinus into Pluralibacter gen. nov. as Pluralibacter gergoviae comb. nov. and Pluralibacter pyrinus comb. nov., respectively, E. cowanii, E. radicincitans, E. oryzae and E. arachidis into Kosakonia gen. nov. as Kosakonia cowanii comb. nov., Kosakonia radicincitans comb. nov., Kosakonia oryzae comb. nov. and Kosakonia arachidis comb. nov., respectively, and E. turicensis, E. helveticus and E. pulveris into Cronobacter as Cronobacter zurichensis nom. nov., Cronobacter helveticus comb. nov. and Cronobacter pulveris comb. nov., respectively, and emended description of the genera Enterobacter and Cronobacter |journal=Systematic and Applied Microbiology |date=1 July 2013 |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=309–319 |doi=10.1016/j.syapm.2013.03.005|pmid=23632228 |bibcode=2013SyApM..36..309B }}

| type_species = Pluralibacter gergoviae

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• P. gergoviae
• P. pyrinus

| subdivision_ref =

}}

Pluralibacter is a genus of Gram negative bacteria from the family of Enterobacteriaceae. The genus consists of two species, P. gergoviae and P. pyrinus.{{cite journal |last1=Brenner |first1=D. J. |last2=Richard |first2=C. |last3=Steigerwalt |first3=A. G. |last4=Asbury |first4=M. A. |last5=Mandel |first5=M. |title=Enterobacter gergoviae sp. nov.: a New Species of Enterobacteriaceae Found in Clinical Specimens and the Environment |journal=International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology |date=1 January 1980 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=1–6 |doi=10.1099/00207713-30-1-1|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Chung |first1=Young Ryun |last2=Brenner |first2=Don J. |last3=Steigerwalt |first3=Arnold G. |last4=Kim |first4=Byung Sup |last5=Kim |first5=Heung Tae |last6=Cho |first6=Kwang Yun |title=Enterobacter pyrinus sp. nov., an Organism Associated with Brown Leaf Spot Disease of Pear Trees |journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |date=January 1993 |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=157–161 |doi=10.1099/00207713-43-1-157|doi-access=free }} Both species were originally classified in the genus Enterobacter but were reclassified into the novel genus Pluralibacter in 2013.