Raoultella planticola
Taxonomy
Morphology
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Phylum Proteobacteria, Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Enterobacterales, Family Enterobacteriaceae, Genus Raoultella,
Raoultella planticola (Bagley et al. 1982) Drancourt et al. 2001.

Old synonyms:
Klebsiella planticola Bagley et al. 1982, Klebsiella trevisanii
Ferragut et al. 1983.
Gram-negative, straight rods, 0.3-1.0 μm x 0.6-6 μm. Non-motile. Capsulated.
Glistening moist colonies of varying degrees of stikiness (M–type colonies).
No special requirements. Facultatively anaerobic, optimum growth temperature 35 -
37 ºC. Can grow at 5 ºC. Media: Nutrient agar or Nutrient broth, Trypticase Soy Agar ±
5% sheep blood, Mac Conkey agar, Mueller-Hinton agar.
Widely distributed in nature. Isolated from botanical, aquatic, and soil environments. It is capable of fixing nitrogen.
Undetermined.
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    Determinative Bacteriology, 9th-edition, Williams & Wilkins, pp 175-189.
  2. Don J. Brenner and J.J. Farmer III, 2001. Family I. Enterobacteriaceae. In: Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second
    edition, Vol two, part B, George M. Garrity (Editor-in-Chief), pp 587-897.
  3. M. Drancourt, C. Bollet, A. Carta, and P. Rousselier. 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 May 2001 51:925-32.
  4. Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, S Gupta R. Genome-based phylogeny and taxonomy of the 'Enterobacteriales': proposal for
    Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov.,
    Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
    2016; 66:5575-5599.
Positive results for citrate utilization, tartrate utilization, ONPG, lysine decarboxylase, catalase, malonate test, nitrate reduction, esculin
hydrolysis (most strains), acid production from: L-arabinose, D-adonitol, cellobiose, glucose, mannitol, melibiose, maltose,
D-mannose, raffinose, salicin, trehalose and D-xylose.

Negative results for oxidase, arginine dihydrolase, H
2S production, phenylalanine deaminase, gelatin hydrolysis, DN-ase and lipase.

Variable results for acetate utilization, methyl red test, acid production from dulcitol.
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R E G N U M
PROKARYOTAE
 
Acetate
utilzation
D-melezitose
(acid)
Ornithine
decarboxylase
Indole
production
Citrate
utilization
Voges-Proskauer
Urea
hydrolysiss
Raoultella ornithinolytica
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Raoultella planticola
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Raoultella terrigena
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Differential characters of the Raoultella species:
Legend: +  positive 90-100%, - negative 90-100%, [+] positive 75-89%, [-] negative 75-89%, d positive 25-74% of strains
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