Bacterium
nocardia brasiliensis
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A species of aerobic, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is nonmotile, catalase and urease positive, acid-fast, oxidase negative, hydrolyzes casein, elastin, esculin, hypoxanthine, testosterone, and tyrosine, but not xanthine, produces acid phosphatase, and reduces nitrate. N. brasiliensis is naturally found in soil and is one of the main causative agents of nocardiosis.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Nocardia brasiliensis.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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