Raoultella

Raoultella
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacteriales
Family: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Raoultella
Species

Raoultella electrica
Raoultella ornithinolytica
Raoultella planticola
Raoultella terrigena

The genus Raoultella is composed of Gram-negative, oxidase-negative, aerobic, nonmotile, capsulated, facultatively anaerobic rods (formerly designated Klebsiella) in the family Enterobacteriaceae. It is named after the French bacteriologist Didier Raoult.[1]

Members of genus Raoultella grow at 10 °C consistent with their recovery from plants, soil, and water, whereas members of Klebsiella (Klebsiella oxytoca is an exception, and a proposal to classify K. oxytoca in a separate, unnamed genus has been made).[2] do not grow at 10 °C and are mainly recovered from mammals' mucosae.

It consists of species Raoultella electrica, Raoultella ornithinolytica, Raoultella planticola and Raoultella terrigena.[3]

A phylogenetic tree of Klebsiella, based on a 2.93-Mbp alignment, unambiguously places R. ornithinolytica sister to K. oxytoca within the larger Klebsiella phylogeny and suggests abandoning the Raoultella genus designation.[4]

References

  1. Drancourt, M; Bollet, C; Carta, A; Rousselier, P (May 2001). "Phylogenetic analyses of Klebsiella species delineate Klebsiella and Raoultella gen. nov., with description of Raoultella ornithinolytica comb. nov., Raoultella terrigena comb. nov. and Raoultella planticola comb. nov.". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 3): 925–32. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-3-925. PMID 11411716.
  2. Jain, K.; Radsak, K.; Mannheim, W. (1974). "Differentiation of the Oxytocum group from Klebsiella by deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 24 (4): 402–407. doi:10.1099/00207713-24-4-402.
  3. J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Raoultella
  4. Hudson, Corey; Bent, Zachary; Meagher, Robert; Williams, Kelly (June 6, 2014). "Resistance Determinants and Mobile Genetic Elements of an NDM-1-Encoding Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain". PLOS ONE. 9: e99209. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099209. PMC 4048246Freely accessible. PMID 24905728.


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