| Genus
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Infections
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| Partially acid-fast (cell wall contains mycolic acid)
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| Nocardia
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mycetoma, lymphocutaneous infections, skin abscesses; in immunocompromised hosts, invasive pulmonary and disseminated infections
|
| Rhodococcus
|
pulmonary infections, bacteremia, skin and wound infections, UTIs, endophthalmitis, peritonitis, CLABSI, abscess in prostate, spleen, thyroid, kidney, or brain, osteomyelitis; associated with horses
|
| Gordonia
|
skin infections, chronic pulmonary disease, CLABSI, wound infections, bacteremia
|
| Tsukamurella
|
peritonitis, CLABSI, skin infection
|
| Not partially acid-fast (cell wall does not contain mycolic acid)
|
| Streptomyces
|
commonly contaminant; inoculation skin infection including mycetoma
|
| Actinomadura
|
inoculation skin infection including mycetoma
|
| Dermatophilus
|
inoculation skin infection from insects or thorns
|
| Nodardiopsis
|
|
| Oerskovia
|
|
| Other acid-fast bacteria
|
| Mycobacterium
|
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| Corynebacterium
|
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