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Genus: | Sneathia Collins et al. 2002 [1] |
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Sneathia sanguinegens Collins et al. 2002 | |
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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 after the microbiologist Peter H. A. Sneath. [6]
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) [1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) [7]
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