- 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
- Actinomyces hordeovulneris
Pages in category "Actinomyces"
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