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Nocardiosis is an opportunistic infection caused by aerobic, branching, filamentous bacteria of the genus Nocardia, which are found ubiquitously in soil and water. Clinical presentations range from ...

In a recent case report published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers reported a case of severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was just diagnosed with nocardiosis. Not knowing anything about it, I started to do some research and, like in most cases, going to the internet really didn’t help. My pulmonary ...

It's a pervasive bacterium found in soil and water that rarely causes disease, but a new national review of nocardia infection in people who have had a kidney transplant shows that when it occurs it ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 11, 2021) – It’s a pervasive bacterium found in soil and water that rarely causes disease, but a new national review of nocardia infection in people who have had a kidney transplant ...

Results from the world's first double-blind, randomized clinical trial to find a treatment for the fungal form of a chronic disabling disease called mycetoma have demonstrated that a new oral ...

The aerobic actinomycetes are a distinct group of microorganisms initially classified as fungi since they grow as branching filaments and morphologically resemble these organisms. Their taxonomy was ...

1 BOSTON, Assistant in Clinical Bacteriology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Bacteriology, Harvard Medical School; 2 BOSTON, Visiting Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; ...

1 BOSTON, Assistant in Clinical Bacteriology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Bacteriology, Harvard Medical School; 2 BOSTON, Visiting Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; ...