Stomatococcus

<i>Rothia</i> (bacterium)

Rothia (bacterium)

Genus of bacteria

Rothia is a Gram-positive, aerobic, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterial genus from the family Micrococcaceae.[1][2][3] Rothia bacteria can cause disease in humans and immunosuppressed humans.[4][5]

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Rothia is prevalent in human saliva and it produces enterobactin. Rothia is also prevalent in the human gut and can cause the emergence of gastric atrophy and intestinal metaplasia.[6][7]

References

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    Parte, A.C. "Rothia". LPSN.
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    David E., Swayne; John R., Glisson; Larry R., McDougald; Lisa K., Nolan; David L., Suarez; Venugopal L., Nair (2013). Diseases of Poultry. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-71973-2.
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    Austin, Brian (1 January 2015). "Rothia". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: 1–13. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00124. ISBN 9781118960608.
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    Schlossberg, David, ed. (2015). Clinical infectious disease (Second ed.). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107038912.
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    (Hrsg.), Gholamreza Darai; et al. (2012). Lexikon der Infektionskrankheiten des Menschen Erreger, Symptome, Diagnose, Therapie und Prophylaxe (4., vollständig überarbeitete und aktualisierte Aufl. ed.). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-17158-1.
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    Uranga, Carla; Arroyo, Pablo; Duggan, Brendan M.; Gerwick, William H.; Edlund, Anna (2020-02-20). "Commensal oral Rothia mucilaginosa produces enterobactin—a metal chelating siderophore" (PDF). doi:10.1101/2020.02.20.956391. S2CID 213599051. Retrieved 2020-10-13. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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    Sung, Joseph J Y; Coker, Olabisi Oluwabukola; Chu, Eagle; Szeto, Chun Ho; Luk, Simson Tsz Yat; Lau, Harry Cheuk Hay; Yu, Jun (2020-01-23). "Gastric microbes associated with gastric inflammation, atrophy and intestinal metaplasia 1 year after Helicobacter pylori eradication". Gut. 69 (9): 1572–1580. doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2019-319826. ISSN 0017-5749. PMC 7456733. PMID 31974133.

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