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===Diagnosis===
===Diagnosis===
*Samples include pus, exudate, affected tissues and urine
*Presence of coryneform organisms in smears
*Culture on blood agar, selective blood agar and MacConkey agar
*Do not grow on MacConkey
*Colony characteristics:
*Colony characteristics:
**''C. bovis'': lipophilic bacterium; small, white, dry, non-haemolytic colonies on plates inoculated with bovine milk
**''C. bovis'': lipophilic bacterium; small, white, dry, non-haemolytic colonies on plates inoculated with bovine milk