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Overview

• Gram positive bacteria
• Grow slowly on media and produce branching filaments
• Opportunistic infections causing inflammatory responses and granulomatous reactions
• Animal pathogens include Actinomyces, Arcanobacterium, Actinobaculum, Nocardia and Dermatophilus

Arcanobacterium, Actinomyces and Actinobaculum species

• Non-motile, non-spore-forming bacteria
• Anaerobic or facultative anaerobes
• Grow on enriched media; non-acid fast
• Colonise mucous membranes
• Modified Ziehl-Neelson negative

• Micropolyspora faeni and Thermactinomyces vulgaris in Bovine Farmers Lung
• Thermactinomyces vulgaris may cause COPD