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The Family Dermatophilaceae

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The family Dermatophilaceae embraces two genera, Dermatophilus and Kineosphaera. Dermatophilus congolensis was first described by Van Saceghem (1915) as the causative organism of a disease he named successively as “dermatite granuleuse,” “dermatose contagieuse ou impetigo contagieux,” and “dermatose dite contagieuse des bovides, impetigo tropical des bovides.” This acute, subacute or chronic exudative and proliferative skin disease is prevalent in the humid tropics and subtropics and affects more than thirty animal species and man (Zaria, 1993; Table 1), but animals are also affected in countries of the Northern hemisphere. The disease (also referred to as streptotrichosis, pitted keratolysis, strawberry foot rot, lumpy wool, rain scald or dermatophilosis, depending on the host infected and clinical signs) is economically important, occurring in domestic cattle in tropical regions, sheep in high-rainfall areas, and also wild species (see Zaria [1993]for references). Recently, the...

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Stackebrandt, E. (2006). The Family Dermatophilaceae. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30743-5_41

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