Nocardiosis
PATHOGENS
- Member of aerobic actinomycetes group. Grows slowly on media. Appear as branching, beaded filamentous Gram-positive rods.
- Variably acid fast due to presence of intermediate mycolic acids in cell wall, distinguishes from Actinomyces. May produce sulfur granules, especially in mycetomas.
- Ubiquitous in environment. Most infections acquired by inhalation or direct inoculation.
- Many (possibly all) isolates previously identified as "N. asteroides" now known to have been mis-identified based on current lab standards; type strain of N. asteroides does not appear to have been recovered from recent clinical isolates.
- Human pathogens include N. abscessus (former N. asteroides Type I drug susceptibility pattern), N. brevicatena/paucivorans complex (Type II), N. nova complex (III), N. transvalensis complex (IV), N. farcinica (V; more virulent), and N. cyriacigeorgica (VI), as well as N. brasiliensis (more common in tropics and actinomycetoma) and N. pseudobrasiliensis.
- Each species/complex generally has stereotyped antimicrobial susceptibility patterns.
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Last updated: May 6, 2021
Citation
Melia, Michael. "Nocardiosis." Johns Hopkins HIV Guide, 2021. Johns Hopkins Guides, www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545150/all/Nocardiosis.
Melia M. Nocardiosis. Johns Hopkins HIV Guide. 2021. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545150/all/Nocardiosis. Accessed November 29, 2023.
Melia, M. (2021). Nocardiosis. In Johns Hopkins HIV Guide https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545150/all/Nocardiosis
Melia M. Nocardiosis [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins HIV Guide. ; 2021. [cited 2023 November 29]. Available from: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545150/all/Nocardiosis.
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