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*''Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis'' may cause [[Muscles - inflammatory#Abscesses|myositis]]
*''Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis'' may cause [[Muscles - inflammatory#Abscesses|myositis]]
*''Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis'' in [[Bacterial skin infections#Deep pyoderma|deep pyoderma]]
*''Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis'' in [[Bacterial skin infections#Deep pyoderma|deep pyoderma]]
===Overview===
*Common inhabitants of skin and mucous membranes of animals
*Cause pyogenic infections
*Most species host specific
===Characteristics===
*Small, tough, Gram positive rods
*Pleomorphic
*Cluster together to resemble Chinese characters - coryneform morphology
*Known as diphtheroids
*Catalase positive, oxidase negative
*Facultative anaerobes
*Require enriched media for growth
*Non-motile
===Clinical infections===
*Infection follows tissue trauma
*Suppurative lesions
*''C. pseudotuberculosis'' casues caseous lymphadenitis in sheep
*Carried on skin of sheep
*Produces a phospholipase toxin
*Infection through shearing wounds
*Facultative intracellular pathogen inside macrophages
*Ulcerative lymphangitis in horses
===Diagnosis===
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