"actinomyces" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1902, Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York, page 375:",
          "text": "Very often the actinomyces are mixed with some other microorganism, the growth of which is more vigorous, and tends to obscure the actinomyces.",
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          "ref": "1992, Frank Ryan, Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told : the Human Story of the Search for the Cure for Tuberculosis and the New Global Threat, →ISBN, page 215:",
          "text": "He soon became expert enough to spot an actinomyces colony at a glance. For Albert Schatz, the quest for the wonder microbe in this chaos of nature owed more to intuition than any systematic scientific search. \"If you ask me why I picked one colony of actinomyces over another, I cannot tell you. There was no rationale for picking one colony of an actinomyces over another. Naturally if a plate had five colonies which morphologically and grossly looked alike, I would not pick all five.\"",
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          "ref": "2003, Piet Lens, Biofilms in Medicine, Industry and Environmental Biotechnology: Characteristics, Analysis and Control, →ISBN, page 40:",
          "text": "An sspAB double mutant was generated and the resulting effects were additive; however, it retained a single previously unrecognized lactose-inhibitable coaggregation with an actinomyces coaggregation group D representative (Figure 3.3, cognate symbol complementary to gray rectangle).",
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          "ref": "2007, D. A. Hopwood, Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers, page 22",
          "text": "Waksman wrote in his autobiography:\n\" … It is the first attempt that has ever been made to grow an actinomyces on a large scale, to attempt to utilize an actinomyces for any practical purpose, or even to find any use whatsoever for this obscure group of micro-organisms.\"\nUnfortunately, the initial excitement did not last long: actinomycin certainly killed the pathogens, but it killed laboratory animals too. Woodruff pressed on …"
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        "A bacterium (species) of the genus Actinomyces."
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          "ref": "1902, Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York, page 375:",
          "text": "Very often the actinomyces are mixed with some other microorganism, the growth of which is more vigorous, and tends to obscure the actinomyces.",
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        {
          "ref": "1992, Frank Ryan, Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told : the Human Story of the Search for the Cure for Tuberculosis and the New Global Threat, →ISBN, page 215:",
          "text": "He soon became expert enough to spot an actinomyces colony at a glance. For Albert Schatz, the quest for the wonder microbe in this chaos of nature owed more to intuition than any systematic scientific search. \"If you ask me why I picked one colony of actinomyces over another, I cannot tell you. There was no rationale for picking one colony of an actinomyces over another. Naturally if a plate had five colonies which morphologically and grossly looked alike, I would not pick all five.\"",
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          "ref": "2003, Piet Lens, Biofilms in Medicine, Industry and Environmental Biotechnology: Characteristics, Analysis and Control, →ISBN, page 40:",
          "text": "An sspAB double mutant was generated and the resulting effects were additive; however, it retained a single previously unrecognized lactose-inhibitable coaggregation with an actinomyces coaggregation group D representative (Figure 3.3, cognate symbol complementary to gray rectangle).",
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          "ref": "2007, D. A. Hopwood, Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers, page 22",
          "text": "Waksman wrote in his autobiography:\n\" … It is the first attempt that has ever been made to grow an actinomyces on a large scale, to attempt to utilize an actinomyces for any practical purpose, or even to find any use whatsoever for this obscure group of micro-organisms.\"\nUnfortunately, the initial excitement did not last long: actinomycin certainly killed the pathogens, but it killed laboratory animals too. Woodruff pressed on …"
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        "A bacterium (species) of the genus Actinomyces."
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