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| Preferred Name | Nocardia asteroides | |
| Synonyms |
Nocardia asteroides NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES |
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| 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. |
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| ID |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86611 |
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| ALT_DEFINITION |
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Nocardia asteroides.
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| code |
C86611
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| Concept_In_Subset |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830 |
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| Contributing_Source |
CDISC
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| 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.
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| FULL_SYN |
Nocardia asteroides NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES
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Nocardia asteroides
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| NCBI_Taxon_ID |
1824
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| Preferred_Name |
Nocardia asteroides
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| prefixIRI |
Thesaurus:C86611
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| Semantic_Type |
Bacterium
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| UMLS_CUI |
C0028241
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