Preferred Label : Nocardia farcinica;
NCIt definition : 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.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Nocardia farcinica.;
Taxon ID : 37329;
Origin ID : C86615;
UMLS CUI : C0317900;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- concept_is_in_subset
