Raoultella Drancourt et al. 2001
General information
Name
Raoultella
Valid publication
2001
Nomenclature type
Raoultella planticola
Etymology
N.L. fem. dim. n. <i>Raoultella</i>, named after the French bacteriologist Didier Raoult, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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The genus Raoultella is composed of Gram-negative, oxidase-negative, aerobic, non-motile, capsulated rods. Facultatively anaerobic, having both a respiratory and a fermentative type of metabolism. Cells grow on meat extract medium; growth at 10°C is a hallmark of the genus. Oxidase-negative, catalase positive. Most strains can use citrate and glucose as sole carbon source. Glucose is fermented with the production of acid and gas, and most strains produce 2,3-butanediol as a major end product of glucose fermentation. Voges-Proskauer test is always positive. Recovered from water, soil, plants and occasionally mammal mucosae, including human specimens.
Subdivision(s)
MID | Name | Rank | Taxon ID |
---|---|---|---|
M022506080223002 | Raoultella electrica | Species | 1259973 |
M022506080223003 | Raoultella ornithinolytica | Species | 54291 |
M022506080221001 | Raoultella planticola | Species | 575 |
M022506080223004 | Raoultella terrigena | Species | 577 |
References
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Drancourt, M., Bollet, C., Carta, A., and Rousselier, P. 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. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2001) 51:925-932.[DOI:10.1099/00207713-51-3-925]
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