Indeed they are in the main responsible for one of the most common and deadly bovine diseases which is called actinomycosis, and is acquired by cattle eating infected barley or other cereal, the actinomyces adhering to the tongue or jaw.
Bollinger determined that the Actinomyces bovis (Streptothrix bovis) is the cause of actinomycosis in cattle in 1877.
Actinomyces fungus from a tumor of the jawbone in cattle, magnified 550 times.
The diagnosis does not offer any difficulties, since the presence of the actinomyces fungus at once removes any existing doubts.
The actinomyces grains were exceedingly abundant in this tissue, and appeared when the tissue was incised as minute sulphur-yellow grains, densely sprinkled through the tissue, which readily came away and adhered to the knife blade.
The tumors and abscesses wherever they may be are all found to be the same in origin by the presence of the actinomyces fungus.
The danger therefore of the presence of actinomyces for healthy animals is a limited one.
When this was pulled away the pus beneath it showed the actinomyces grains to the naked eye.
The individual actinomyces colonies are lodged in the spaces or interstices formed by the meshwork of the connective tissue.
These soft, grayish-yellow masses likewise resembled moist dough in their consistency, and the actinomyces grains, though neither very distinct nor at all abundant, were easily fished out and identified as such.
It has already been stated that the actinomyces fungus found in human disease is considered by authorities the same as that occurring in bovine affections.
Although actinomycotic tumors on cattle had been the object of study for many years, it was not until 1877 that the constant presence of actinomyces was pointed out by Bollinger, of Munich, and since that time considered the cause.
The actinomyces grains are, however, easily observed if the diseased tissue is carefully examined.
The question as to how and where animals take this disease is one concerning which we are still in the stage of conjecture, because so far we possess very little information concerning the life history of the actinomyces itself.
These latter areas were the seat of multiplication of the actinomyces fungus.
Around each colony of actinomyces is a zone of granulation tissue in which suppuration usually occurs, so that the fungus comes to lie in a bath of greenish-yellow pus.
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