TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 276. Nocardiosis A1 - Abdel-Haq, Nahed A1 - Kumar, Ashir A2 - Rudolph, Colin D. A2 - Rudolph, Abraham M. A2 - Lister, George E. A2 - First, Lewis R. A2 - Gershon, Anne A. PY - 2011 T2 - Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e AB - Nocardiosis is an uncommon gram-positive infection with protean clinical manifestations. It is caused by a soilborne aerobic actinomycete of the family Nocardiaceae and is acquired mostly through the respiratory tract.1 Members of the family Nocardiaceae reproduce by fragmenting into bacillary and coccoid elements but are distinguished by filamentous growth with true branching.2 These organisms appear as gram-positive branching filaments and are weakly acid-fast.2Nocardia species grow readily on simple media as pigmented colonies due to rudimentary aerial mycelia. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7027298 ER -