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.

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

Phylogeny

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

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220
Sneathia S. sanguinegens Collins et al. 2002 S. vaginalis Eisenberg et al. 2021Sneathia S. sanguinegens S. vaginalis
SneathiaS. sanguinegens Collins et al. 2002 S. vaginalis Eisenberg et al. 2021
S. sanguinegens Collins et al. 2002
S. vaginalis Eisenberg et al. 2021
SneathiaS. sanguinegens S. vaginalis
S. sanguinegens
S. vaginalis

See also

Further reading

  • Devi, U.; Bora, R.; Das, J. K.; Malik, V.; Mahanta, J. (16 September 2014). . Oxford Medical Case Reports. 2014 (6): 112–114. doi:. PMC . PMID .
  • 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). . BMC Genomics. 13 (Suppl 8): S4. doi:. PMC . PMID .
  • Kotaskova, Iva; Nemec, Petr; Vanerkova, Martina; Malisova, Barbora; Tejkalova, Renata; Orban, Marek; Zampachova, Vita; Freiberger, Tomas (14 August 2017). . BMC Infectious Diseases. 17 (1): 563. doi:. PMC . PMID .