Nocardia asteroides

Nocardia asteroides is a species of Nocardia.[1] It can cause nocardiosis, a severe pulmonary infection in immunocompromised hosts.[2]

Nocardia
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N. asteroides
Binomial name
Nocardia asteroides
(Eppinger, 1891) Blanchard, 1896

Experiments in the field of astroecology have shown that Nocardia asteroides is able to live on the nutrients contained in a sample from a meteorite called the Murchison meteorite, when the meteorite sample was ground into a fine powder and supplemented by Earth's water and air. [3]

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Further reading

  • Fujikura, Yuji; Kouzaki, Yuji; Ohta, Shinichiro; Hara, Yu; Mikita, Kei; Maeda, Takuya; Kanoh, Soichiro; Miura, Soichiro; Kawana, Akihiko (2012). "A Case of Nocardia asteroides Infection in a Patient with HIV/AIDS Diagnosed by Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA)". Internal Medicine. 51 (11): 1413–1417. doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6961.

Praharaj, I; Sujatha, S; Ashwini, M. A.; Parija, S. C. (8 August 2013). "Co-infection with Nocardia asteroides Complex and Strongyloides stercoralis in a Patient with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia". 42 (1): 211–214. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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