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Scanty aerial mycelium of a novel species of Nocardia, Nocardia terpenica sp. nov., isolated from the sputum of a patient with lung nocardiosis. The upper image shows sclerotium-like structures and the lower image shows long, fragmented substrate mycelium. Images courtesy Yuzuru Mikami, Research Center for Pathogenic Fungi and Microbial Toxicoses, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan. See the paper by Hoshino et al. in the July issue of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, vol. 57, part 7, pp.1456-1460.