Actinotignum schaalii

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

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]

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  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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