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Sneathia

Sneathia is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming and non-motile genus of bacteria from the family of Leptotrichiaceae. Species have been identified as pathogens associated with bacterial vaginosis.

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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Fusobacteriati
Phylum: Fusobacteriota
Class: Fusobacteriia
Order: Fusobacteriales
Family: Leptotrichiaceae
Genus: Sneathia
Collins et al. 20021
Type species
Sneathia sanguinegens
Collins et al. 2002
Species

Sneathia is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming and non-motile genus of bacteria from the family of Leptotrichiaceae.134 Species have been identified as pathogens associated with bacterial vaginosis.5

Sneathia is named after the microbiologist Peter H. A. Sneath.6

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)1 and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)7

16S rRNA based LTP_10_20248910 120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220111213
Sneathia

S. sanguinegens Collins et al. 2002

S. vaginalis Eisenberg et al. 2021

Sneathia

S. sanguinegens

S. vaginalis

See also

See also

References

References

  1. J.P. Euzéby. "Sneathia". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  2. "Sneathia amnii". www.uniprot.org.
  3. "Sneathia". www.uniprot.org.
  4. Logan, Julie M.J.; Edwards, Kirstin J.; Gharbia, Saheer E. (14 September 2015). "Sneathia". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: 1–2. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00773. ISBN 9781118960608.
  5. Theis, KR; Florova, V; Romero, R; Borisov, AB; Winters, AD; Galaz, J; Gomez-Lopez, N (August 2021). "Sneathia: an emerging pathogen in female reproductive disease and adverse perinatal outcomes". Critical Reviews in Microbiology. 47 (4): 517–542. doi:10.1080/1040841X.2021.1905606. PMC 8672320. PMID 33823747.
  6. Krieg, Noel R.; Ludwig, Wolfgang; Whitman, William B.; Hedlund, Brian P.; Paster, Bruce J.; Staley, James T.; Ward, Naomi; Brown, Daniel (2011). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 4: The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9780387685724.
  7. Sayers; et al. "Sneathia". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  8. "The LTP". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  9. "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  10. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  11. "GTDB release 09-RS220". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  12. "bac120_r220.sp_labels". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  13. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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