Actinomycetaceae
actinomycetaceae
actinomycetaceae ac·ti·no·my·ce·ta·ce·ae (āk’tə-nō-mī’sĭ-tā’sē-ē’)
n.
a family of non-spore-producing, nonmotile, mostly facultatively anaerobic bacteria containing gram-positive, non-acid-fast, predominantly diphtheroid cells that tend to form branched filaments.
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