Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Rhodococcus equi

"Rhodococcus equi" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A species of RHODOCOCCUS found in soil, herbivore dung, and in the intestinal tract of cows, horses, sheep, and pigs. It causes bronchopneumonia in foals and can be responsible for infection in humans compromised by immunosuppressive drug therapy, lymphoma, or AIDS.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rhodococcus equi" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Rhodococcus equi" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.