Category:Actinomyces

  • Usually long filamentous branching Gram positive rods
  • Anaerobic or facultativlyy anaerobic and capnophilic
  • Live in nasopharyngeal and oral mucosa
  • Cause pyogranulomatous lesions


    • Actinomyces hordeovulneris
      • Organism found in seed heads of certain grasses
      • Colonies adhere to agar and are non-haemolytic
      • Filamentous, branching organisms
      • Cause cutaneous and visceral abscessation, pleuritis, peritonitis and arthritis in dogs

Pages in category "Actinomyces"

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