Rothia (bacterium) explained

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

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.^{[5] [6]}

Further reading

• Ramanan . Poornima . Barreto . Jason N. . Osmon . Douglas R. . Tosh . Pritish K. . Diekema . D. J. . Rothia Bacteremia: a 10-Year Experience at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota . Journal of Clinical Microbiology . September 2014 . 52 . 9 . 3184–3189 . 10.1128/JCM.01270-14 . 24951810 . 4313135.
• Book: George M. . Garrity . Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology. . 2012 . Springer Science + Business Media . New York . 978-0-387-68233-4 . 2nd.

Notes and References

1. Book: David E. . Swayne . John R. . Glisson . Larry R. . McDougald . Lisa K. . Nolan . David L. . Suarez . Venugopal L. . Nair . Diseases of Poultry . 2013 . John Wiley & Sons . 978-1-118-71973-2.
2. Austin . Brian . Rothia . Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria . 1 January 2015 . 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00124 . John Wiley & Sons, Ltd . en . 1–13. 9781118960608 .
3. Book: Schlossberg . David . Clinical infectious disease . 2015 . Cambridge, United Kingdom . Cambridge University Press . 9781107038912 . Second.
4. Book: (Hrsg.) . Gholamreza Darai . etal . Lexikon der Infektionskrankheiten des Menschen Erreger, Symptome, Diagnose, Therapie und Prophylaxe . 2012 . Springer . Berlin . 978-3-642-17158-1 . 4., vollständig überarbeitete und aktualisierte Aufl..
5. 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 . 2020-10-13 . 10.1101/2020.02.20.956391 . 213599051 .
6. 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 . 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-319826 . 31974133 . 7456733 . 0017-5749 . free.