Bacterium
nocardia asteroides
Subclass of:
Nocardia
Definitions related to nocardia asteroides:
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A species of aerobic, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is catalase and urease positive, acid-fast, hydrolyzes esculin but not casein, reduces nitrate, and characteristically produces a mycelium that fragments into bacillary and coccoid elements. N. asteroides is naturally found in soil, ans lake and marine sediment where it digests plant matter; but in humans it is an opportunistic pathogen and one of the causative agents of nocardiosis in immunocompromised individuals.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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A species of bacterium of the family NOCARDIACEAE, producing pulmonary infections in man.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Nocardia asteroides.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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