Current Issues Pertaining to the Nocardia species

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 57-62

  Conville, Patricia S ^a,b   Witebsky, Frank G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b MSC 1508 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CASEIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RNA 16S; TYROSINE; XANTHINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ABSCESSUS; NOCARDIA AFRICANA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIA BRECVICATENA; NOCARDIA CARNEA; NOCARDIA CYRIACIGEORGICA; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIA NOVA; NOCARDIA OTITIDISCAVIARUM; NOCARDIA PAUCIVORANS; NOCARDIA PSEUDOBRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIA PURIS; NOCARDIA TRANSVALENSIS; NOCARDIA VETERANA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 1842629771     PISSN: 01964399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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