This is a pulmonary infectious disease affecting either the lungs (pulmonary nocardiosis) or the whole body (systemic nocardiosis). It is due to infection by bacterium of the genus Nocardia, most commonly Nocardia asteroides or Nocardia brasiliensis.
Also indexed as
Pneumonia in nocardiosisPulmonary nocardiosislung nocardiosisnocardial pneumonianocardiosis of lungnocardiosis pneumoniapneumonia due to nocardiosispneumonia with nocardiasis