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Medical Definition of Corynebacteria

1. Genus of gram-positive nonmotile rod like bacteria, often with a club shaped appearance. most are facultative anaerobes with some similarities to mycobacteria and nocardiae. Corynebacteria diphtheriae is the causative agent of diphtheria and produces a potent exotoxin diphtheria toxin. Coryneform bacteria, common name for nondiphtheria corynebacterium, usually a nonpathogenic component of skin and oropharyngeal flora in humans and animals can cause opportunistic infections in the immunocompromised host. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corynebacteria

Literary usage of Corynebacteria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"The authors regard the organism as belonging to the Corynebacteria rather than to the influenza group. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Avery, OT, and Cullen, GE, ..."

2. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"MYCO- BACTERIA AND Corynebacteria. KEY AND NOTES Key for Bacilli.—Having branching characteristics, as shown by parallelism, ..."

3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"MYCOBACTERIA AND Corynebacteria. KEY AND NOTES Key for Bacilli.—Having branching characteristics, as shown by parallelism, branching, curving forms, ..."

4. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1912)
"This would agree with Ernst's claim that tk* B. renalis is to be classed in the group of the Corynebacteria to which the B. ..."

5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"... glucose for faecal streptococci and in nutrient agar with the addition of 10 per cent, bovine serum for the other streptococci and corynebacteria. ..."

6. Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Interactions, Mechanisms, and Interventions by Lincoln C. Chen, Nevin S. Scrimshaw (1983)
"... Salmonella, Shigella, Klebsiella, and Proteus, as well as for Bordetella, Corynebacteria, and Mycoplasma.9M Among the best understood fibrillar adhesins ..."

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