Nocardia cyriacigeorgica is a significant pathogen responsible for nocardiosis in Japan and Thailand

Mycopathologia

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-19

  Kageyama, Akiko ^a   Hoshino, Yasutaka ^a   Yazawa, Katsukiyo ^a   Poonwan, Natteewan ^b   Takeshita, Nobuyoshi ^a   Maki, Satoshi ^a   Mikami, Yuzuru ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Nocardia cyriacigeorgica

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL RNA; IMIPENEM; RNA 16S; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIOSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THAILAND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; JAPAN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THAILAND; TOBRAMYCIN;

NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA CYRIACIGEORGICA;

EID: 24744470983     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-005-3050-2     Document Type: Article

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