| Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum | <bacteria> A nonpathogenic species found in normal throats. Synonym: Hofmann's bacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis | <bacteria> 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. (12 Dec 1998) |
| corynebacterium pyogenes | <bacteria> A species of corynebacterium isolated from abscesses of warm-blooded animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Corynebacterium renale | <bacteria> A species of bacteria which occurs in purulent infections of the urinary tract in cattle, sheep, horses, and dogs; is pathogenic to laboratory animals; causes ulcerative posthitis in sheep and goats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Corynebacterium striatum | <bacteria> A species found in nasal mucus and in the throat; also found in udders of cows with mastitis; pathogenic to laboratory animals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Corynebacterium xerosis | <bacteria> A species found in normal and diseased conjunctiva; there is no evidence that this organism is pathogenic. (05 Mar 2000) |