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Schaalia

Schaalia is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria in the phylum Actinomycetota. Some members of the genus have been implicated in human disease.

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Schaalia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetes
Order: Actinomycetales
Family: Actinomycetaceae
Genus: Schaalia
Nouioui et al. 20181
Type species
Schaalia odontolytica
(Batty 1958) Nouioui et al. 2018
Species2
  • S. canis (Hoyles et al. 2000) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. cardiffensis (Hall et al. 2003) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. funkei (Lawson et al. 2001) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. georgiae (Johnson et al. 1990) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. hyovaginalis (Collins et al. 1993) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. meyeri (Cato et al. 1984) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. naturae (Rao et al. 2012) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. odontolytica (Batty 1958) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. radingae (Wüst et al. 1995) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. suimastitidis (Hoyles et al. 2001) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. turicensis (Wüst et al. 1995) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • S. vaccimaxillae (Hall et al. 2003) Nouioui et al. 2018

Schaalia is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria in the phylum Actinomycetota.1 Some members of the genus have been implicated in human disease.3

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References

  1. Nouioui I, Carro L, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Göker M. (2018). "Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria". Front. Microbiol. 9 2007. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.02007. PMC 6113628. PMID 30186281.
  2. Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Schaalia". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  3. Nugraha, Patrick; Pan, Tzong-Yang; Di Giovine, Paul; Mann, Nigel; Murphy, William (2025-08-04). "The First Schaalia (Formerly Actinomyces) Canis-Related Osteomyelitis Requiring Surgical Intervention". Infectious Disease Reports. 17 (4): 94. doi:10.3390/idr17040094. ISSN 2036-7430. PMC 12386227. PMID 40863256.