actinomycetales meaning

Noun: Actinomycetales

1. Filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria
   - order Actinomycetales

Type of: animal order

Part of: division Eubacteria

Encyclopedia: Actinomycetales

[Medicine]
An order of gram-positive,primarily aerobic BACTERIA that tend to form branching filaments. n pl : an order of filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria tending strongly to the development of branches and true mycelium and lacking photosynthetic pigment —see MYCOBACTERIACEAE, STREPTOMYCETACEAE

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1. Bisset distinguished 1 class and 4 orders : Eubacteriales, Actinomycetales, Streptomycetales, and Flexibacteriales.
2. Becking redefined the genus in 1970 as containing actinomycetes and created the family Frankiaceae within the Actinomycetales.
3. The "'Micrococcineae "'are a suborder of bacteria of the order Actinomycetales.
4. Bacteria; Actinobacteria; Actinobacteria ( class ); Actinobacteridae; Actinomycetales; Micrococcineae; Micrococcaceae; Arthrobacter.
5. Of those Actinobacteria not in the Actinomycetales, " Gardnerella " is one of the most researched.