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| Health | A genus of gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that has a tendency to form long filaments. Its organisms are widely distributed in nature and are parasitic on mammals, birds, and fish. (references) | ||
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| Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae | Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a parasitic bacterium. The disease it causes in animals is called erysipelas. This disease is most common in pigs and turkeys, but also occurs in other birds, sheep, fish, and reptiles. An infection of E. rhusiopathiae in humans is known as erysipeloid. The human disease called erysipelas is a different disease caused by a different bacterium. (references) | ||
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| Erysipelothrix Infections | Health | Infections with bacteria of the genus Erysipelothrix. (references) | |
| Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae | Medicine | Causal agent of the anthropozoonosis called erysipeloid. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae infection | Biology & Biotechnology | An infectious disease of pigs characterised by high fever, reddish or purplish spots on the skin, and haemorrhages on to the surfaces of certain of the internal organs in acute cases; and by general debility, lameness, and difficulty in breathing in chronic cases ; a specific acute inflammatory disease caused by a hemolytic streptococcus transferred from swine. The eruption is limited to the skin and sharply defined and is usually accompanied by severe constitutional symptoms. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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