Nocardia asteroides

Nocardia asteroides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Actinomycetes
Order:	Mycobacteriales
Family:	Nocardiaceae
Genus:	Nocardia
Species:	N. asteroides
Binomial name
Nocardia asteroides (Eppinger 1891) Blanchard 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Nocardia asteroides is a species of Nocardia.^[1] It can cause nocardiosis, a severe pulmonary infection in immunocompromised hosts.^[2]

References

Further reading

• Fujikura, Yuji; Kouzaki, Yuji; Ohta, Shinichiro; Hara, Yu; Mikita, Kei; Maeda, Takuya; Kanoh, Soichiro; Miura, Soichiro; Kawana, Akihiko (2012). "A Case of Nocardia asteroides Infection in a Patient with HIV/AIDS Diagnosed by Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA)". Internal Medicine. 51 (11): 1413–1417. doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6961. PMID 22687853.

External links

• Type strain of Nocardia asteroides at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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