Rhodococcus equi

Rhodococcus equi
a species that forms smooth, shiny, orange to red colonies with elemental hyphae, found in soil and in the intestinal tracts and feces of numerous mammals; it causes bronchopneumonia in foals and can infect immunocompromised humans. See also Rhodococcus equi pneumonia, under pneumonia. Called also Corynebacterium equi.

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