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ac•tin•o•my•cete

Pronunciation: (ak-tin"ō-mī'sēt, -mī-sēt', ak"tu-nō-), [key]
—n. Bacteriol.
any of several rod-shaped or filamentous, aerobic or anaerobic bacteria of the phylum Chlamydobacteriae, or in some classification schemes, the order Actinomycetales, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and animals.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

actinomyces

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