pandoraea thiooxydans pandoraea thiooxydans pandoraea thiooxydans is a gram-negative, oxidase-positive, catalase-negative, aerobic, thiosulfate-oxidizing, rod-shaped, motile bacterium with a single polar flagellum, of the genus pandoraea, isolated from rhizosphere soils of sesame in junghwa-dong in the republic of korea. pandoraea thiooxydans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: burkholderiaceae genus: pandoraea species: p. thiooxydans binomial name pandoraea thiooxydansanandham et al. 2010 type strain atsb16, kacc 12757, lmg 24674, lmg 24779