| Found in soil (soil spilling out of broken pot) |
| Gram-positive branching filamentous rod (branching tree) |
| Urease Positive (Urease Positive Spray Bottle) |
| Obligate aerobe (bellows) |
| Pneumonia-like symptoms (coughing) |
| Cavitary lung lesions (also in actinomycosis, coccidioidomycosis) |
| Brain abscess (hat shot through) |
| Cutaneous Symptoms: indurated lesions, inflammatory reaction: "Nocardiosis" |
| Immunocompromised at risk (cane) |
| Dx: Mycolic acid, partially acid fast (fast shootin' pink gun) |
| Dx: Catalase Positive (bartender's cat) |
Rx: Sulfonamides (Sulfurous eggs) |
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