RT Book, Section
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.
SR Print(0)
ID 7027298
T1 Chapter 276. Nocardiosis
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7027298
RD 2024/04/19
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.