 | Chapter Objectives
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After reading this
chapter you should be able to: - describe the filamentous actinomycetes
- describe the morphology and arrangement of spores, cell wall chemistry, and
the types of sugars present in cell extracts within the actinomycetes
- discuss the roles of actinomycetes in the mineralization of organic compounds
and in the production of antibiotics
- describe the important human pathogens contained in the genera Corynebacterium
and Mycobacterium
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