Fig. 1. Brain infection from Nocardia asiatica. (A) Brain magnetic resonance images; multiple peripheral enhancing lesions with diffusion restriction in bilateral cerebral and cerebellar hemispheres, suggestive of abscess, (B) microscopic morphology of filamentous, branching, gram-positive bacilli in abscess aspirates, (C) colony morphology on a blood agar plate, (D) Gram stain of a cultured colony and (E) modified acid fast bacilli stain of a cultured colony.