Sunday, December 13, 2009

My New friend....err I mean Bug

My culture came up showing a new bug. Here are the basics on it and an excert reading on it.

CDC group IVc-2: Cupriavidus pauculus Ralstonia paucula Wautersia paucula
A gram-negative, non- fermenting bacillus, rarely associated with human infections.

"They noticed several characteristics their organism shared with members of the genus Alcaligenes, now all classified in the genus *Achromobacter, first reclassified in the genus Ralstonia and recently transferred again, to the novel genus Wautersia.

*noteworthy: my sputum usually comes up with achromabacter in it but this year it has not and there is a part of me wondering, since they are closely related, if this mis-identified.
Cupriavidus pauculus is a gram-negative, non- fermenting bacillus, rarely associated with human infections.

LINEAGE:
cellular organisms
Bacteria
Proteobacteria
Betaproteobacteria
Burkholderiales
Burkholderiaceae
Cupriavidus

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