''Gleimia europaea'' is a bacterium from the genus ''

Gleimia ''Gleimia'' is a genus of bacteria from the family of Actinomycetaceae The Actinomycetaceae (often called actinomycetes or mycelial bacteria) are a family of bacteria in the order Actinomycetales that contains the medically important genus '' ...

''. ''Gleimia europaea'' can cause cases of

bacteraemia Bloodstream infections (BSIs), which include bacteremias when the infections are bacterial and fungemias when the infections are fungal, are infections present in the blood. Blood is normally a sterile environment, so the detection of micro ...

in very rare cases. ''Gleimia europaea'' is formerly known as ''Actinomyces europaeus''. It comes from the domain of gram-positive actinobacteria.

References

Actinomycetales Bacteria described in 1997 {{Actinomycetota-stub