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*Common inhabitants of skin and mucous membranes of animals
*Common inhabitants of skin and mucous membranes of animals
*Opportunistic infections
*Cause pyogenic infections
*Cause pyogenic infections
*Most species host specific
*Most species host specific
*Require enriched media for growth
*Require enriched media for growth
*Non-motile
*Non-motile
===Pathogenesis and pathogenicity===
*Pyogenic causing
===Diagnosis===
===Diagnosis===
*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
**''C. kutscheri'': white colonies; occasionally haemolytic
**''C. kutscheri'': white colonies; occasionally haemolytic