with Human Tuberculosis). Nocard’s main contribution to medicine has been the discovery of the genre of bacteria which was named, in his honor, Nocardia. It causes nocardiosis, a disease which manifests itself mainly in animals of economic importance, such as bovine farcy, for which he discovered the first Nocardia, named by him initially as Streptothrix farcinica. The Nocardia may also cause disease in humans, particularly in immunocompromised patients, such as those with AIDS. In the field of veterinary pathology he discovered the pathogen of endozootic mastitis, Streptococcus agalactiae. Nocard also discovered the virus which causes bovine peripneumonia and studied psittacosis. He died on 2 August 1903 in Saint-Maurice (Marne) External links Edmond Nocard. Pasteur Institute (in French) Jean Blancou Esquisse biographique d'Edmond Nocard Bull.soc.fr.hist.méd.sci.vét 2003, 2 References Chauvau, E Leclainche, E Roux, Edmond Nocard 1850-1903, Paris, Masson and Co éd., 1906, 85 p. 1850 births 1903 deaths People from Provins French biologists French microbiologists French veterinarians