Actinotignum schaalii

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| taxon = Actinotignum schaalii

| authority = (Lawson et al. 1997) Yassin et al. 2015

| synonyms = * Actinobaculum schaalii Lawson et al. 1997

| synonyms_ref = {{cite journal|last1=Lotte|first1=R|title=Actinotignum schaalii (formerly Actinobaculum schaalii): A newly recognized pathogen—Review of the literature.|journal=Clin Microbiol Infect|volume=22|issue=1|year=2016|pages=28–36|doi=10.1016/j.cmi.2015.10.038|pmid=26577137|doi-access=free}}

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Actinotignum schaalii is a bacterium first isolated from human blood cultures. Its type strain is CCUG 27420.{{cite journal|last1=Lawson|first1=P. A.|last2=Falsen|first2=E.|last3=Akervall|first3=E.|last4=Vandamme|first4=P.|last5=Collins|first5=M. D.|title=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.|journal=International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology|volume=47|issue=3|year=1997|pages=899–903|issn=0020-7713|doi=10.1099/00207713-47-3-899|pmid=9226926|doi-access=free}} It is a Gram-positive, facultative anaerobic coccoid rod, considered a human pathogen.{{cite journal|last1=Cattoir|first1=Vincent|title=Actinobaculum schaalii: Review of an emerging uropathogen|journal=Journal of Infection|volume=64|issue=3|year=2012|pages=260–267|issn=0163-4453|doi=10.1016/j.jinf.2011.12.009|pmid=22209960}}{{cite journal|last1=Reinhard|first1=M.|last2=Prag|first2=J.|last3=Kemp|first3=M.|last4=Andresen|first4=K.|last5=Klemmensen|first5=B.|last6=Hojlyng|first6=N.|last7=Sorensen|first7=S. H.|last8=Christensen|first8=J. J.|title=Ten Cases of Actinobaculum schaalii Infection: Clinical Relevance, Bacterial Identification, and Antibiotic Susceptibility|journal=Journal of Clinical Microbiology|volume=43|issue=10|year=2005|pages=5305–5308|issn=0095-1137|doi=10.1128/JCM.43.10.5305-5308.2005|pmid=16208004|pmc=1248514}}