actinomyces

== English == === Noun === actinomyces (plural actinomyces) Any bacterium (species) of the genus Actinomyces. 2007, D. A. Hopwood, Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers (→ISBN), page 22: Waksman wrote in his autobiography: " [...] 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." Unfortunately, the initial excitement did not last long: actinomycin certainly killed the pathogens, but it killed laboratory animals too. Woodruff pressed on [...]