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... > Bacteria > Gram-Positive Bacteria > Gram-Positive Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods, Irregular > Actinobacteria > Nocardiaceae > Rhodococcus > Rhodococcus equi

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Rhodococcus equi  

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Entry terms

  • Corynebacterium equi

Note

  • in soil, dung, cows, sheep, pigs as well as horses (equ-); infection: coord IM with ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS (IM)

Scope note

  • A species of RHODOCOCCUS found in soil, herbivore dung, and in the intestinal tract of cows, horses, sheep, and pigs. It causes bronchopneumonia in foals and can be responsible for infection in humans compromised by immunosuppressive drug therapy, lymphoma, or AIDS.

History note

  • 92; CORYNEBACTERIUM EQUI was see RHODOCOCCUS 1987-91

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016929

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