Nocardiosis in 1999: Clinical and biological diagnosis;Nocardioses en 1999: Diagnostics clinique et biologique

Feuillets de Biologie

Volumn 40, Issue 226, 1999, Pages 25-38

  Laurent, F ^a,b   Provost, F ^a   Boiron, F ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MENAQUINONE; MINOCYCLINE; MYCOLIC ACID; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHOLIPID; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; TAXONOMY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 0033061180     PISSN: 04282779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

References (20)

1. LECHEVALIER M.P., LECHEVALIER H.A. - Chemical composition as a criterion in the classification of aerobic actinomycetes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1970;20:435-443.
2. CHUN J., GOODFELLOW M. - A phylogenetic analysis of the genus Nocardia with 16S rRNA gene sequence. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995;45:240-245.
3. BOIRON P., PROVOST F., CHEVRIER G., DUPONT B. -Review of Nocardial infections in France 1987 to 1990. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1992;11:709-714.
4. BEAMAN B.J., BEAMAN L. - Nocardia species : host-parasite relationships. Clin Microbiol Rev 1994;7:213-264.
5. FILICE G.A. - Nocardiosis. In: Sarosi G.A., Davies S.F. (ed), Fungal diseases of the lung, 2nd ed. Raven Press, New York, 1993.191-204.
6. WOLFF J. - Abcès cérébraux àNocardia : étude générale et revue de la littérature àpropos d'un cas. Thèse Médecine Strasbourg, 1992;No137.
7. FRELAND C., FUR J.L., NEMIROVSKY-TREBUCQ B., LELONG P., BOIRON P. - Primary cutaneous nocardiosis caused by Nocardia otitidiscaviarum : two cases and a review of the literature. J Trop Med Hyg 1995;98:395-403.
8. BOIRON P., PROVOST F. DUPONT B. - Méthodes de laboratoire pour le diagnostic de la nocardiose Institut Pasteur, 1993.
9. GOODFELLOW M., LECHEVALIER M.P. - Genus Nocardia Trevisan 1889. 9AL. In : Williams S.T., Sharpe M.E., Holt J.G. (ed), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 4. Williams and Wilkins 1989;2350-2361.
10. LAURENT F., PROVOST F., BOIRON P. - Rapid identification of clinically relevant Nocardia species to genus level by 16s rRNA Gene PCR. J. Clin. Microbiol. 1999.
11. STEINGRUBE V.A., WILSON R.W., BROWN B.A., KENNETH C.J., BLACKLOCK Z., GIBSON J.L., WALLACE R.J. - Rapid identification of clinically significant species and taxa of aerobic actinomycetes, including Actinomadura, Gordons, Nocardia, Rhodococcus, Streptomyces, and Tsukamurella isolates, by DNA amplification and restriction endonuclease analysis. J Clin Microbiol 1997;35:817-822.
12. STEINGRUBE VA., BROWN B.A., GIBSON J.L., WILSON R.W., BROWN J., BLACKLOCK J., JOST K., LOCKE S., ULRICH R.F., WALLACE R.J. - DNA amplification and restriction endonuclease analysis for differenciation of 12 species and taxa of Nocardia including recognition of four new taxa within the Nocardia asteroides complex. J Clin Microbiol 1995;33:3096-3101.
13. BOIRON P.,. PROVOST F. - Use of partially purified 54-kilodalton antigen for diagnosis of nocardiosis by Western blot (immunoblot) assay. J Clin Microbiol 1990;28:328-331.
14. MCNEIL M.M., BROWN J.M., JARVIS W.R., AJELLO L. -Comparison of species distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of aerobic actinomycetes from clinical specimens. Rev Infect Dis 1990;12:778-783.
15. WALLACE R.J. JR., SEPTIMUS E.J., MUSHER D.M., MARTIN R.R. - Disk diffusion susceptibility testing of Nocardia species. J Infect Dis 1977;135:568-576.
16. AMBAYE A., KOHNER P.C., WOLLAN P.C., ROBERTS K.L., COKERILL FR. - Comparaison of agar dilution, brot microdilution, disk diffusion, E-Test® and BACTEC® radiometric methods foe antimicrobial susceptibility testing of clinical isolates of the Nocardia asteroides complex. J Clin Microbiol 1997;35:847-852.
17. WALLACE R.J., STEELE L.C., SUMTER G., SMITH J.M. -Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Nocardia asteroides. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1988;23:19-21.
18. SEAMAN BL, BURNSIDE J, EDWARDS B, CAUSEY W. -Nocardial infections in the United States, 1972-1974. J Infect Dis 1976;134:286-289.
19. WILLIAMS J.G.K., KUBELIK A.R., LIVAK K.J., RAFALSKI J.A., TINGEY S.V. - DNA polymorphism amplified by arbitrary primers are useful as genetic markers. Nucleic Acids Res 1990;18:6531-6544.
20. WELSH J., MCCLELLAND M. - Fingerprinting genomes using PCR with arbitrary primers. Nucleic Acids Res 1990;18:7213-8.