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... > Bacteria > Gram-Positive Bacteria > Gram-Positive Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods, Irregular > Actinobacteria > Corynebacterium > Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

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Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis  

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Note

  • infection: coordinate with CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS

Scope note

  • A species of gram-positive, asporogenous bacteria that was originally isolated from necrotic areas in the kidney of a sheep. It may cause ulcerative lymphangitis, abscesses, and other chronic purulent infections in sheep, horses, and other warm-blooded animals. Human disease may form from contact with infected animals.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016925

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