User:FeyUnlocked/Burkholderia Gladioli

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Table of Characteristics: Added 4/20/22

Genome Section: Added 3/26/22

Systems Section: Added 3/26/22

Etymology Section: Added 3/26/22

Human Pathology Section: Added 4/20/22

I also simplified subsequent mentions of the name Burkholderia Gladioli to simply B. gladioli throughout any section of the article that is not the very first header paragraph.

All 5 citations listed in the reference section have been added to the article.

Paragraph under the Table of Characteristics section: Added 4/21/22

Most of my edits were additions rather than revisions. I prioritized adding new information because the article had been labeled with the Start status. The information already present was accurate and had decent sources, so I focused my energy elsewhere. The revisions I did enact were extremely simple, just the changing mentions of the species name as said above. Overall, I added 10 sentences of new content, the entire table of characteristics, and made some simple revisions to the information already found within the article.

Burkholderia gladioli

Table of Characteristics
List of Sources for Characteristics: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 2, Part B.

All species of Burkholderia except for B. mallei display a form of motility when suspended within liquid. Being Gram-Negative, B. gladioli will not be stained by the Crystal Violet - Iodine complex, but will be counter stained red by Safranin. The optimal growth temperature on a Nutrient Agar plate is 30-35 degree Celsius. The Genus Burkholderia (including B. gladioli) shows a remarkable amount of diversity of metabolism of carbohydrates and other organic compounds. B. gladioli is able to more acids than is typical for its genus.

Etymology
Burkholderia - Named after the scientist (bacteriologist) that discovered an organism that caused disease in the skin of onions.

Gladioli - Small sword, of a lily, used within botanics.

Genome
The B. Gladioli genome consists of 6 major holders of genetic information: two chromosomes and four plasmids. The entire genome amounts to 9.06 Mb (Million Bases) with 89.64% of the genome - including non-coding regions - on the two chromosomes.

Systems
The primary system responsible for the disease caused by Burkholderia Gladioli sp. is a Type Two secretion pathway (Link the wiki page for Type 2 secretion pathway here). An experiment performed by Chowdhury and Heinemann revealed that six strains of Burkholderia Gladioli that were avirulent still contained the capacity for mushroom growth inhibition without having the characteristics of mushroom tissue degradations. This led the two to believe the genetic factors that cause the microbe to have the ability to generate the cavity disease within an organism can be separated from the factors that inhibit mycelium growth within said mushrooms.

Pathology in Humans
A 3-year long study period of neonatal and nosocomial sepsis yielded 14 patients (out of approximately 3784) with isolated positive colonies of B. Gladioli from blood cultures. During this time, symptoms of the sepsis caused by the B. Gladioli infection included congenital leukemia, pneumonia, and several other respiratory malfunctions. A mortality rate of 7% is linked to the B. Gladioli infections present during the time of study.