Template:Genus glogowski
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Classification
Higher order taxa
Domain; Phylum; Class; Order; family [Others may be used. Use NCBI link to find]
Species
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NCBI: Taxonomy |
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Beta Proteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Ralstoniaceae
Genus: Ralstonia
Binomial name Ralstonia paucula
Description and significance
Describe the appearance, habitat, etc. of the organism, and why you think it is important. Ralstonia paucula sp. R. paucula has been isolated from pool water, groundwater, and bottled mineral water and from clinical specimens. Despite its low pathogenicity, it is now recognized as an opportunistic pathogen which can generate serious infections such as septicemia, peritonitis, abscess, and tenosynovitis, particularly in immunocompromised patients
16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Information
Describe the size and content of the 16S Ribosome. How many genes? Other interesting features? What is known about its sequence for identification? Ralstonia paucula PCR-ribotyping and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the spacer 16S-23S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) has been used PCR-ribotyping was performed as described by Kostman et al. (7). The sequences of the 16S and 23S primers were 5'-TTGTACACACCGCCCGTCA-3' and 5'-GGTACCTTAGATGTTTCAGTTC-3' (7), respectively
Cell structure and metabolism
Interesting features of cell structure; how it gains energy; what important molecules it produces.
Ecology
Habitat; symbiosis; contributions to the environment. R. paucula has been isolated from pool water, groundwater, and bottled mineral water (2, 9, 17) and from clinical specimens
Pathology
How does this organism cause disease? Human, animal, plant hosts? Virulence factors, as well as patient symptoms. Ralstonia paucula (formerly CDC group IV c-2) has low pathogenicity, but it is now recognized as an opportunistic pathogen which can generate serious infections such as septicemia, peritonitis, abscess, and tenosynovitis, particularly in immunocompromised patients
Current Research
Enter a summary of the most recent pertinent research here--at least one. Ralstonia paucula (Formerly CDC Group IV c-2): Unsuccessful Strain Differentiation with PCR-Based Methods, Study of the 16S-23S Spacer of the rRNA Operon, and Comparison with Other Ralstonia Species (R. eutropha, R. pickettii, R. gilardii, and R. solanacearum) Recently, several authors have reported the use of PCR-ribotyping (3, 5, 7, 8, 12, 22, 23) and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) analysis (20, 21) for strain differentiation within various bacterial species. the stydy we evaluated the ability to distinguish between R. paucula strains and between strains belonging to other Ralstonia species (R. eutropha, R. pickettii, R. gilardii, and R. solanacearum). As the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) intergenic spacer can contain genes coding for tRNA (15, 24), we also explored this region in R. paucula and compared it to those of other Ralstonia species.
References
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Edited by students of M Glogowskiat Loyola University 1- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC87738/
