Corynebacterium renale (Migula, 1900) Ernst, 1906
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- Corynebacterium renale
Abstract
Corynebacterium renale is a pathogenic bacterium that causes cystitis and pyelonephritis in cattle. C. renale is a facultatively anaerobic Gram-positive organism, characterized by nonencapsulated, nonsporulated, immobile, straight or curved rods with a length of 1 to 8 µm and width of 0.3 to 0.8 µm, which forms ramified aggregations in culture (looking like "Chinese characters"). The bacterium is sensitive to the majority of antibiotics, such as the penicillins, ampicillin, cephalosporins, quinolones, chloramphenicol, tetracyclines, cefuroxime, and trimethoprim. Due to similarities in diagnostic testing procedures Corynebacterium cystiditis may be mis-diagnosed as Corynebacterium renale in beef cattle.