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Rhodococcus erythropolis
An aerobic, gram-positive, branching filamentous bacterium that fragments into bacilli and cocci. They produce rough orange to red colonies. They been isolated from soil. It is a rare human pathogen associated with trauma contaminated with soil containing the bacteria.