In traditional bacterial cultures of clinical samples, the presence of coryneform has often
been considered as local flora, but it is well known that in patients with predisposing factors …

A hypothesis-forming exploratory cross-sectional assessment was conducted to assess the
occurrence and relevance of Gram-positive rod-shaped bacteria like Corynebacterium spp …

Objectives: we describe five cases of Actinomyces neuii, isolated from different clinical
specimens over a period of five months (from June to October 2011), followed by a review of …

Urinary tract infection is a rare disease when it caused by actinomyces, the major causative
agents of this disease are Actinomyces israelii and A. gerencseriaeanaerobic bacteria. A …

Actinomyces turicensis, Gram positive bacillus, immovable and anaerobic, is a saprophytic
of the human natural cavities. The scrotal actinomycosis caused by Actinomyces turicensis is …

Due to molecular biology techniques such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing, the number of
new bacterial species grows continuously. However, this taxonomical reorganization has to …

Actinomyces neuii rarely causes disease in humans. First described in 1985 in two patients
with postcataract endophthalmitis (4), A. neuii represents 17% of all clinical Actinomyces …

The microbiologists use the term corynebacteria to describe aerobically growing,
asporogenous, irregularly sharped grampositive rods. They comprise strictly aerobic …

Actinomyces infection is a tissue destructive, low-grade infection that often resembles
malignancy. We report the case of a 70-year-old male with repeated, culture-negative …

Recently Murray et al.(4) compared the value of incubating urine cultures for 1 versus 2 days
and showed that 146 (21.8%) of the670 isolates were detected only after day 2 of …