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Actinomyces
(redirected from Actinomyces bovis)

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Actinomyces [‚ak·tə·nō′mī·sēs]
(microbiology)
The type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae; anaerobic to facultatively anaerobic; includes human and animal pathogens.
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A certain bacterium, Actinomyces bovis, that lives in soft, can cause bony lump jaw.
Bony lump jaw in cattle by Thomas, Heather Smith / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
In 1877, Bollinger and Harz (3) named the genus Actinomyces when they described the etiologic agent of bovine actinomycesis ("lumpy jaw") and called it Actinomyces bovis.
Actinomyces odontolyticus bacteremia by Hirschberg, Joel / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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