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As the nineteenth century progressed, workers in many parts of the world took an interest in discharging dermatological lesions that contained hard granules made of fungus. In 1877, friable yellow masses, now known as sulfur granules, were recognized in certain discharges; as they contained radiating filaments, the organisms were called ray fungi or actinomycetes. More recently, it has been realized that the actinomycetes are not true fungi but occupy a place between bacilli and the eumycetes.
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Pettit, J.H.S., Parish, L.C. (1984). Actinomycosis. In: Manual of Tropical Dermatology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8292-8_13
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