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Comparative studies on Actinomyces pyogenes and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum

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Actinomyces pyogenes and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum were further characterized. A. haemolyticum, in contrast to A. pyogenes, gave synergistic hemolytic reactions with streptococci of serological group B and inhibited staphylococcal β-hemolysis. A. pyogenes and A. haemolyticum had a number of common, as well as distinctly different enzymatic properties, useful for their characterization. Extracts from A. pyogenes reacted with antiserum against streptococci of serological group G in contrast to those from A. haemolyticum.

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Lämmler, C., Blobel, H. Comparative studies on Actinomyces pyogenes and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum . Med Microbiol Immunol 177, 109–114 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00189532

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