Bacterium
nocardia farcinica
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A species of aerobic, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase and urease positive, reduces nitrate, does not produce acid phosphatase, hydrolyzes esculin and testosterone, but not casein, elastin, hypoxanthine, tyrosine, and xanthine, and produces a mycelium and aerial hyphae that fragments into coccoid elements. N. farcinica is found in soil and is a causative agent of nocardiosis.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Nocardia farcinica.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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