Wolff is remembered for his work with surgeon James Adolf Israel ( 1848-1926 ) involving the isolation of " Actinomyces " and research involving the etiology of actinomycosis.
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The agents of actinomycosis are now known to be endogenous organisms of the mucous membranes, in most cases " Actinomyces israelii ", a species named after surgeon James Israel, who first discovered its presence in humans in the late 1870s.
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Actinomycosis is a quite common condition in cattle, where it is referred to as " lumpy jaw " or " senfed " ( moroccan arabic ), but it can also occur in horses, swine, dogs and rarely in sheep.
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""'Streptomyces somaliensis " "'is a protelytic bacterium species from the genus of " Streptomyces " which has been isolated from a mycetoma from the foot of a man in Somalia . " Streptomyces somaliensis " is a human pathogen and can cause actinomycosis.
