Raoultella

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

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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 ornitholytica, Raoultella planticola and Raoultella terrigena.

References

  1. ^ Drancourt, M; Bollet, C, Carta, A, Rousselier, P (2001 May). "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. 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, 402-407.