Bacterium
nocardiaceae
Subclass of:
Actinobacteria class
Definitions related to family nocardiaceae:
  • (nocardiaceae) A family of gram-positive, aerobic actinomycetes found in soil and animal tissue. Some species are the cause of infection in man and animals.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (nocardiaceae) A taxonomic family of Gram positive, aerobic bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria that includes the genera Nocardia, Rhodococcus and Smaragdicoccus, among others.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (nocardiaceae) Family of gram positive, aerobic actinomycetes found in soil and animal tissue; some species are the cause of infection in man and animals.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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