Rapid identification of clinically significant species and taxa of aerobic actinomycetes, including Actinomadura, Gordona, Nocardia, Rhodococcus, Streptomyces, and Tsukamurella isolates, by DNA amplification and restriction endonuclease analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 817-822

  Steingrube, Vincent A ^a   Wilson, Rebecca W ^b   Brown, Barbara A ^a   Jost Jr , Kenneth C ^c   Blacklock, Zeta ^d   Gibson, Jeremy L ^a   Wallace Jr , Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b Ctr Pulmon and Infect Dis Contr   (United States)

^c TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^d Queensland Health Clinical and Statewide Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; NOCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHODOCOCCUS; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOMADURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; GORDONIA (ACTINOMYCETE); GORDONIA BRONCHIALIS; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA OTITIDISCAVIARUM; NOCARDIA TRANSVALENSIS; RHODOCOCCUS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES ALBUS; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; STREPTOMYCES SOMALIENSIS; TSUKAMURELLA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0030975490     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.4.817-822.1997     Document Type: Article

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