Preferred Name

Nocardia asteroides
Synonyms
Definitions

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.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C86611

ALT_DEFINITION

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Nocardia asteroides.

code

C86611

Contributing_Source

CDISC

definition

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.

in_subset

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C85491

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C66830

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C61410

label

Nocardia asteroides

NCBI_Taxon_ID

1824

Preferred_Name

Nocardia asteroides

prefixIRI

NCIT:C86611

prefLabel

Nocardia asteroides

Semantic_Type

Bacterium

UMLS_CUI

C0028241

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C76372

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