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Nocardia farcinica
Definition 1
A species of aerobic, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase and urease positive, reduces nitrate, does not produce acid phosphatase, hydrolyzes esculin and testosterone, but not casein, elastin, hypoxanthine, tyrosine, and xanthine, and produces a mycelium and aerial hyphae that fragments into coccoid elements. N. farcinica is found in soil and is a causative agent of nocardiosis. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Nocardia farcinica. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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