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Actinomycetes spp.

Collection sites, home-pages

• Home page of the Actinomycetes internet resource center
• The Society for Actinomycetes Japan
• Korea Actinomycetes Network

Fact sheets, consumer guides, general information

• Actinomycetes in compost (digitalseed.com)
• Living Soil (Saskatchewan Interactive)
• Actinomycetes fact sheet (Uni Leuven)
• Actinomycosis (Lycos Network)
• Actinomycetes infections in humans (Microbook, GHW Bowden)
• Inflammatory cisease of the vallopian tube by A. israelii (Multipath)
• Actinomycosis of the head and neck (MG Stewart, Grand Rounds Archives)

Lectures

• hands on: isolating antibiotic resistant Actinomycetes from soil (Access Excellence.com) and culture conditions (Cornell Center for the Environment)
• Actinomycetales Quiz (Brunel University)
• Oral and pulmonary actinomycetalis (LSUMC)
• ecology of the soil (Planet Green.com)
• The science of composting (Paul's Garden World)
• Pathogenic microbiology: Actinomycetes (Uni Maryland)
• Actinomycetes: higher bacteria (Microbiology and Immunology online)
• Actinomycetes: an unusual case of an uncommon disease (Familypractice.com)
• thoracic Actinomycetes and HIV Infection: case reoprt (Southern Medical Journal)
• Using Box Counting Techniques for Measuring Shape of Colonies of Filamentous Micro-organisms (Sodell and Seviour)
• Soil Biology (Celentis Analytical)

Scientific links

• Antimicrobial therapy of Actinomycetes (Washington State Uni)

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Last modified: 06 Feb 2003

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