Nocardia asteroides
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| authority = (Eppinger 1891) Blanchard 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)
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Nocardia asteroides is a species of Nocardia.{{cite journal |vauthors=Roth A, Andrees S, Kroppenstedt RM, Harmsen D, Mauch H |title=Phylogeny of the genus Nocardia based on reassessed 16S rRNA gene sequences reveals underspeciation and division of strains classified as Nocardia asteroides into three established species and two unnamed taxons |journal=Journal of Clinical Microbiology |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=851–856 |year=2003 |pmid=12574299 |pmc=149683 |doi=10.1128/JCM.41.2.851-856.2003 |url=}} It can cause nocardiosis, a severe pulmonary infection in immunocompromised hosts.{{cite web |url=http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/966919-overview |title=Nocardiosis: Overview - eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine }}
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Further reading
- {{cite journal|last1=Fujikura|first1=Yuji|last2=Kouzaki|first2=Yuji|last3=Ohta|first3=Shinichiro|last4=Hara|first4=Yu|last5=Mikita|first5=Kei
|last6=Maeda|first6=Takuya|last7=Kanoh|first7=Soichiro|last8=Miura|first8=Soichiro|last9=Kawana|first9=Akihiko|title=A Case of Nocardia asteroides Infection in a Patient with HIV/AIDS Diagnosed by Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA)|journal=Internal Medicine|date=2012|volume=51|issue=11|pages=1413–1417|doi=10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6961|pmid=22687853|doi-access=free}}
External links
- [http://bacdive.dsmz.de/index.php?search=10640&submit=Search Type strain of Nocardia asteroides at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase]
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Category:Bacteria described in 1891
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