Nocardia

Nocardia /No·car·dia/ (no-kahr´de-ah) a genus of bacteria (family Nocardiaceae), including N. asteroi´des, which produces a tuberculosis-like infection in humans, N. farci´nica (probably identical with N. asteroi´des ), which produces a tuberculosis-like infection in cattle and causes actinomycotic mycetoma, and N. brasilien´sis, which causes nocardiosis and actinomycotic mycetoma in humans.

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A genus of aerobic, gram-positive, primarily saprophytic actinomycetes that are transitional between bacteria and fungi and that form filaments that fragment to single nonmotile microorganisms, including some species that may be pathogenic to humans and other animals.

Nocardia

[nōkär′dē·ə]

Etymology: Edmund I. E. Nocard, French veterinarian, 1850-1903

a genus of weakly gram-positive aerobic bacteria, some species of which are pathogenic, such as Nocardia asteroides. See also nocardiosis.

Nocardia [no-kahr´de-ah]

a genus of gram-negative, aerobic, spore-forming bacteria, including N. asteroi´des, a species of opportunistic pathogens that cause nocardiosis and actinomycotic mycetoma.

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adj an archaic term referring to inert gases and precious metals.

noble metal,

n See metal, noble.

Nocardia,

n a genus of aerobic nonmotile actinomycetes, which are transitional between bacteria and fungi. They are primarily saprophytic but may cause disease in man and other animals.

Nocardia

a genus of gram-positive, modified acid-fast bacteria, with branching filaments that break into cocci or bacilli, in the family Nocardiaceae. Most are soil saprophytes which uncommonly may cause pyogranulomatous infections in a number of species.

Nocardia asteroides, Nocardia brasiliensis

may cause mastitis in cattle, pneumonia, mastitis and lymphadenitis in pigs, sheep and goats, and cutaneous or systemic nocardiosis of dogs and cats.

Nocardia farcinica

there is some uncertainty about the taxonomic status of this species; causes bovine farcy.

Nocardia otitidiscaviarum

causes dermatitis on guinea pig ears.

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fungoides
Kinyoun stain
lysogenic bacterium
noble
Nocardia asteroides
Nocardia caviae
Nocardia farcinica
Nocardiaceae
nocardial
Nocardiopsis
nocardiosis
paraactinomycosis
parasitic glossitis

The Sensititre Broth MIC Method for Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria, Nocardia, and Other Aerobic Actinomycetes (Trek Diagnostic Systems, Cleveland, OH, USA) was used according to manufacturer's instructions (5).

Segniliparus rugosus infection, Australia by Hansen, Tarrant; Van Kerckhof, Janelle; Jelfs, Peter; Wainwright, Claire; Ryan, Pat; Coulter, Chris / Emerging Infectious Diseases

Actinomycotic mycetomas can be caused by Nocardia brasiliensis, Streptomyces somaliensis, Streptomyces madurae, and Streptomyces pelleteri.

Radiological case of the month: Chitra Chandrasekhar, MD by Chandrasekhar, Chitra / Applied Radiology

However, in a letter published in the 4 April 2005 issue of The Medical Journal of Australia, Anthony Allworth, director of infectious diseases at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, describes culturing Burkholderia pseudomallei from two tsunami lung patients in a land-based hospital and Nocardia species from a third.

In disaster's wake: Tsunami lung by Potera, Carol / Environmental Health Perspectives