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Nocardiosis from 1888 to 2017.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Jan 2018
Fatahi-Bafghi Mehdi
Abstract excerpt
The genus Nocardia is an aerobic bacterium, Gram-positive and catalase positive that is in Nocardiaceae family. This bacterium first described by Edmond Nocard in 1888 and is not in human commensal bacteria. To date, nocardiosis incidence is increasing due to increase population growth rate, increase in patients with immune disorder diseases and immunocompromised patients. We surveyed taxonomic position,...
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