Nocardia ignorata, a new agent of human nocardiosis isolated from respiratory specimens in Europe and soil samples from Kuwait

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 6167-6170

  Rodríguez Nava, Verónica ^a   Couble, Andrée ^a   Khan, Z U ^b   Perouse De Montclos M ^c   Brasme, L ^d   Villuendas, Cruz ^e   Molinard, Claudie ^a   Boiron, Patrick ^a   Laurent, Frédéric ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^d SERVICE DE DERMATOLOGIE   (France)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^f Université Claude Bernard Lyon I   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EUROPE; KUWAIT; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA IGNORATA; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUROPE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; KUWAIT; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA IGNORATA;

EID: 30744447497     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.12.6167-6170.2005     Document Type: Article

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