Taxonomy

• Order Actinomycetales
• Family Actinomycetaceae (Colloquially Termed “Actinomycetes”)

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Organisms

Aerobic

• Corynebacterium (see Corynebacterium, [[Corynebacterium]])
• Gordona
• Mycobacterium (see Mycobacterium, [[Mycobacterium]])
• Nocardia (see Nocardiosis, [[Nocardiosis]])
• Rhodococcus
  • Rhodococcus Equi (see Rhodococcus Equi, [[Rhodococcus Equi]])
• Streptomyces
• Tsukamurella

Anaerobic

• Actinomyces (see Actinomycosis, [[Actinomycosis]])
• Arachnia
• Rothia
• Bifidobacterium

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Microbiology

• General Comments
  • All of the Actinomycetes Organisms are Morphologically Similar and Exhibit Characteristic Filamentous Branching with Fragmentation into Bacillary or Coccoid Forms

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References

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