Nocardia farcinica

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Nocardia farcinica
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetes
Order: Mycobacteriales
Family: Nocardiaceae
Genus: Nocardia
Species:
N. farcinica
Binomial name
Nocardia farcinica
Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)
Type strain [1]
ATCC 3318
CCUG 10109
CCUG 27778
CCUG 48656
CIP 104775
DSM 43257
DSM 43578
DSM 43665
IEGM 621
IFO 15532
JCM 3088
M. Goodfellow N898/ATCC 3318
NBRC 15532
NCTC 11134
NRRL B-2089
Synonyms [2]
  • "Nocardia blackwellii" (Erikson 1935) Waksman and Henrici 1948

Nocardia farcinica is a species of bacteria, once thought to be associated with farcy, and a member of the genus Nocardia . This species is very similar in phenotype to Nocardia asteroides , to the degree that some isolates of N. asteroides were later found to be Nocardia farcinica. [3]

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Pathogenicity

N. farcinica may be a causative agent of nocardiosis [4] or of secondary infections in immunocompromised patients. [5] Strains of this species have been isolated from human brain abscesses. [6]

Genome

N. farcinica contains a 6 million base pair genome with an average GC content of 70.8%. A sequenced strain, IFM 10152, is also known to contain two plasmids, pNF1 pNF2. The chromosome encodes 5,674 potential protein-coding open reading frames. This genome may have undergone numerous gene duplication events as a result of adapting to new environments. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Parte, A.C. "Nocardia". LPSN .
  2. ↑ Kämpfer P, Dott W, Kroppendstedt RM. (1990). "Numerical classification and identification of some nocardioform bacteria". The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 36 (5): 309–331. doi: 10.2323/jgam.36.309 .
  3. ↑ Wallace RJ Jr.; Tsukamura, M; Brown, BA; Brown, J; Steingrube, VA; Zhang, YS; Nash, DR (December 1990). "Cefotaxime-resistant Nocardia asteroides strains are isolates of the controversial species Nocardia farcinica". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 28 (12): 2726–32. doi:10.1128/JCM.28.12.2726-2732.1990. PMC   268263 . PMID   2280003.
  4. ↑ Holm, P (July 1975). "Seven cases of human nocardiosis caused by Nocardia farcinica". Sabouraudia. 13 (2): 161–9. doi:10.1080/00362177585190301. PMID   1162538.
  5. ↑ Torres, O. H.; Domingo, P.; Pericas, R.; Boiron, P.; Montiel, J. A.; Vázquez, G. (3 April 2000). "Infection Caused by Nocardia farcinica : Case Report and Review". European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 19 (3): 205–212. doi:10.1007/s100960050460. PMID   10795594. S2CID   6487051.
  6. ↑ Malincarne, Lisa; Marroni, Massimo; Farina, Claudio; Camanni, Guido; Valente, Marina; Belfiori, Barbara; Fiorucci, Stefano; Floridi, Piero; Cardaccia, Angela; Stagni, Giuliano (1 May 2002). "Primary brain abscess with Nocardia farcinica in an immunocompetent patient". Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 104 (2): 132–135. doi:10.1016/S0303-8467(01)00201-3. PMID   11932043. S2CID   35619104.
  7. ↑ Ishikawa, J; Yamashita, A; Mikami, Y; Hoshino, Y; Kurita, H; Hotta, K; Shiba, T; Hattori, M (Oct 12, 2004). "The complete genomic sequence of Nocardia farcinica IFM 10152". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101 (41): 14925–30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406410101 . PMC   522048 . PMID   15466710.

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