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Oerskovia species are ubiquitous, non-spore-forming, gram-positive bacteria first described by Orkov in 1938 as motile Nocardia (1); in 1957, Erickson designated the organism as Nocardia turbata (2). In the early 1970s, several other groups also described this Nocardia-like actinomycete (3–5). On the basis of its ability to fragment into motile rods, its lack of aerial mycelia, and the presence of large amounts of galactose in the cell wall, in 1970 the organism was distinguished from N. turbata as Orskovia turbata by Prauser et al. (6,7). A second species, O. xanthineolytica was identified by is ability to degrade xanthine and hypoxanthine (8). So far, only two motile species have been described, O. turbata and O. xanthineolytica. Other nonmotile Oerskovia-like strains have also been identified (4).
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Georgiev, V.S. (2003). Oerskovia ssp.. In: Opportunistic Infections. Infectious Disease. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-296-8_5
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