Sneathia

Sneathia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Fusobacteriota
Class:	Fusobacteriia
Subclass:	Fusobacteriales
Order:	Fusobacteriales
Family:	Leptotrichiaceae
Genus:	Sneathia Collins et al. 2002[1]
Type species
Sneathia sanguinegens Collins et al. 2002
Species
S. amnii[2] S. sanguinegens S. vaginalis

Sneathia is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming and non-motile genus of bacteria from the family of Leptotrichiaceae.^[1][3][4] Species have been identified as pathogens associated with bacterial vaginosis.^[5]

Sneathia is named of the microbiologist H. A. Snaeth.^[6]

See also

• List of bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders

References

1. Parte, A.C. "Sneathia". LPSN.
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.

Further reading

• Devi, U.; Bora, R.; Das, J. K.; Malik, V.; Mahanta, J. (16 September 2014). "Sneathia species in a case of neonatal meningitis from Northeast India". Oxford Medical Case Reports. 2014 (6): 112–114. doi:10.1093/omcr/omu044. PMC 4369986. PMID 25988049.
• 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.
• Fanaroff, Avroy A. (2011). Year Book of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine 2011 - E-Book. Elsevier Health Sciences. ISBN 978-0323087384.
• Harwich, Michael D; Serrano, Myrna G; Fettweis, Jennifer M; Alves, João MP; Reimers, Mark A; Buck, Gregory A; Jefferson, Kimberly K (2012). "Genomic sequence analysis and characterization of Sneathia amnii sp. nov". BMC Genomics. 13 (Suppl 8): S4. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-S8-S4. PMC 3535699. PMID 23281612.
• Kotaskova, Iva; Nemec, Petr; Vanerkova, Martina; Malisova, Barbora; Tejkalova, Renata; Orban, Marek; Zampachova, Vita; Freiberger, Tomas (14 August 2017). "First report of Sneathia sanguinegens together with Mycoplasma hominis in postpartum prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: a case report". BMC Infectious Diseases. 17 (1): 563. doi:10.1186/s12879-017-2654-8. PMC 5557263. PMID 28806998.