Sneathia Explained

Sneathia is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming and non-motile genus of bacteria from the family of Leptotrichiaceae.^{[1] [2]} Species have been identified as pathogens associated with bacterial vaginosis.^[3]

Sneathia is named of the microbiologist H. A. Snaeth.^[4]

See also

• List of bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders

Further reading

• Devi . U. . Bora . R. . Das . J. K. . Malik . V. . Mahanta . J. . Sneathia species in a case of neonatal meningitis from Northeast India . Oxford Medical Case Reports . 16 September 2014 . 2014 . 6 . 112–114 . 10.1093/omcr/omu044. 25988049 . 4369986 .
• Book: Krieg . Noel R. . Ludwig . Wolfgang . Whitman . William B. . Hedlund . Brian P. . Paster . Bruce J. . Staley . James T. . Ward . Naomi . Brown . Daniel . Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 4: The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes . 2011 . Springer Science & Business Media . 9780387685724 . en.
• Book: Fanaroff . Avroy A. . Year Book of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine 2011 - E-Book . 2011 . Elsevier Health Sciences . 978-0323087384 . en.
• Harwich . Michael D . Serrano . Myrna G . Fettweis . Jennifer M . Alves . João MP . Reimers . Mark A . Buck . Gregory A . Jefferson . Kimberly K . Genomic sequence analysis and characterization of Sneathia amnii sp. nov . BMC Genomics . 2012 . 13 . Suppl 8 . S4 . 10.1186/1471-2164-13-S8-S4. 23281612 . 3535699 . free .
• Kotaskova . Iva . Nemec . Petr . Vanerkova . Martina . Malisova . Barbora . Tejkalova . Renata . Orban . Marek . Zampachova . Vita . Freiberger . Tomas . First report of Sneathia sanguinegens together with Mycoplasma hominis in postpartum prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: a case report . BMC Infectious Diseases . 14 August 2017 . 17 . 1 . 563 . 10.1186/s12879-017-2654-8. 28806998 . 5557263 . free .

Notes and References

1. Sneathia . www.uniprot.org . en.
2. Logan . Julie M.J. . Edwards . Kirstin J. . Gharbia . Saheer E. . Sneathia . Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria . 14 September 2015 . 1–2 . 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00773 . John Wiley & Sons, Ltd . 9781118960608 . en.
3. Theis . KR . Florova . V . Romero . R . Borisov . AB . Winters . AD . Galaz . J . Gomez-Lopez . N . Sneathia: an emerging pathogen in female reproductive disease and adverse perinatal outcomes. . Critical Reviews in Microbiology . August 2021 . 47 . 4 . 517–542 . 10.1080/1040841X.2021.1905606 . 33823747. 8672320 .
4. Book: Krieg . Noel R. . Ludwig . Wolfgang . Whitman . William B. . Hedlund . Brian P. . Paster . Bruce J. . Staley . James T. . Ward . Naomi . Brown . Daniel . Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 4: The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes . 2011 . Springer Science & Business Media . 9780387685724 . en.