{"title":"Nocardia farcinica","authors":"小林 義朋, Kobayashi Yoshitomo","doi":"10.32388/oxlyky","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32388/oxlyky","url":null,"abstract":"A species of aerobic, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. T his 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. Qeios · Definition, February 8, 2020","PeriodicalId":280662,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese Red Cross medical journal","volume":"226 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122182636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}