Actinotignum schaalii

Actinotignum schaalii is a bacterium first isolated from human blood cultures. Its type strain is CCUG 27420.[2] It is a Gram-positive, facultative anaerobic coccoid rod, considered a human pathogen.[3][4]

Actinotignum schaalii
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Actinomycetales
Family: Actinomycetaceae
Genus: Actinotignum
Species:
A. schaalii
Binomial name
Actinotignum schaalii
(Lawson et al. 1997) Yassin et al. 2015
Synonyms[1]
  • Actinobaculum schaalii Lawson et al. 1997

References
  1. Lotte, R (2016). "Actinotignum schaalii (formerly Actinobaculum schaalii): A newly recognized pathogen—Review of the literature". Clin Microbiol Infect. 22 (1): 28–36. doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2015.10.038. PMID 26577137.
  2. Lawson, P. A.; Falsen, E.; Akervall, E.; Vandamme, P.; Collins, M. D. (1997). "Characterization of Some Actinomyces-Like Isolates from Human Clinical Specimens: Reclassification of Actinomyces suis (Soltys and Spratling) as Actinobaculum suis comb. nov. and Description of Actinobaculum schaalii sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (3): 899–903. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-3-899. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9226926.
  3. Cattoir, Vincent (2012). "Actinobaculum schaalii: Review of an emerging uropathogen". Journal of Infection. 64 (3): 260–267. doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2011.12.009. ISSN 0163-4453. PMID 22209960.
  4. Reinhard, M.; Prag, J.; Kemp, M.; Andresen, K.; Klemmensen, B.; Hojlyng, N.; Sorensen, S. H.; Christensen, J. J. (2005). "Ten Cases of Actinobaculum schaalii Infection: Clinical Relevance, Bacterial Identification, and Antibiotic Susceptibility". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 43 (10): 5305–5308. doi:10.1128/JCM.43.10.5305-5308.2005. ISSN 0095-1137. PMC 1248514. PMID 16208004.

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