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Identification of a new biotype of Actinomyces hyovaginalis in tissues of pigs during diagnostic bacteriological examination.
Veterinary microbiology - 3 Jan 2002
Storms V, Hommez J, Devriese L A, Vaneechoutte M, De Baere T, Baele M, Coopman R, Verschraegen G, Gillis M, Haesebrouck F
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial strains isolated from a large variety of necropsy samples of pigs and previously described as a phenotypical homogeneous group were shown to belong to the species Actinomyces hyovaginalis. This was unexpected because their colonial characteristics, as well as their origins, were very different from those originally reported for the vaginal strains on which the species description of A. hyovaginalis was...
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