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