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Nocardia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Geoffrey Chazen
Geoffrey Chazen*
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Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232
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Abstract

In 1888, Nocard isolated the microorganism responsible for a disease in cattle known as farcy. Eppinger, in 1890, isolated the same pathogen from man. With time, this aerobic gram-positive, partially acid-fast, branching rod became known as Nocardia. Whether Nocardia is a bacterium or fungus was debated for some years. Nocardia has now been classified according to Bergey's system as a bacterium in group 17, order 1: Actinomycetales, family VI: Nocardiaceae.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 6 , June 1987, pp. 260 - 263
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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