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Nocardia on Culture and Respiratory Microscopy
 - Gram stain from plate culture: classic beaded, branching GPR
Nocardia on Culture ... richdavisphd #Nocardia
Nocardiosis - Nocardia spp
Pathogen: Filamentous gram-positive branching rod, grows in acid fast staining and anaerobic conditions
Clinical
Nocardiosis - Nocardia ... #Nocardiosis #Nocardia
Causes of Culture Negative Abscess - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Consider prior antibiotics as a cause of a
- Fastidious: Nocardia ... gonorrhoeae, bartonella, nocardia ... Burkholderia, Nocardia
Cavitary Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm
Acute / Subacute:
 • Acute Infections: Lung abscess,
Fungal Infection, Nocardia
Radiographic appearances of pulmonary diseases in HIV/AIDS Patients
 • Diffuse Interstitial Infiltrates: Pneumocystis jirovecii, M.tuberculosis, Histoplasma
H.capsultaum, Nocardia ... Aspergillus spp., Nocardia
Co-occurrence of Lung-Brain Infections
When we hear a patient w/ co-occurrence of lung-brain infection, Nocardia seems to
lung-brain infection, Nocardia ... very broad: • Nocardia
Lymphocutaneous Sporotrichiosis Infection

Landscaper w/ painless nodular rash of arm present for months wax and wane; diagnosis?
Lymphocutaneous
spread: common: nocardia
Non-Resolving Pneumonias: Etiologies
Unusual Infections:
 - Immunocompromised patients (e.g.: Mycobacterium, Aspergillosis, Nocardia)
 - Endemic Fungi (e.g.: Histoplasmosis,
Aspergillosis, Nocardia
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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Select Bacteria: Nocardia
Gram Positive Bacilli - LLAb RACCCEs Mnemonic
Listeria, Lactobacillus
Actinomyces (& Nocardia)
Rhodococcus
Arcanobacterium
Corynebacterium, Cutibacterium, Clostridium
Erysipelothrix

WuidQ: Washington University ID Questions
Actinomyces (& Nocardia