First clinical isolates of Nocardia carnea, Nocardia elegans, Nocardia paucivorans, Nocardia puris and Nocardia takedensis in Japan

Japanese Journal of Medical Mycology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 85-89

  Watanabe, Kayo ^a   Shinagawa, Masaaki ^b   Amishima, Masaru ^b   Iida, Soji ^a   Yazawa, Katsukiyo ^a   Kageyama, Akiko ^a   Ando, Akikazu ^a   Mikami, Yuzuru ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

First isolation; Japanese isolates; Nocardia species; Pathogen

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S; FLUOROURACIL; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; JAPAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NOCARDIACEAE; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA CARNEA; NOCARDIA ELEGANS; NOCARDIA PAUCIVORANS; NOCARDIA PURIS; NOCARDIA TAKEDENSIS;

EID: 33744742614     PISSN: 09164804     EISSN: 09164804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3314/jjmm.47.85     Document Type: Article

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