Nocardia exalbida sp. nov., isolated from Japanese patients with nocardiosis

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1193-1196

  Iida, Soji ^a   Kageyama, Akiko ^a   Yazawa, Katsukiyo ^a   Uchiyama, Noboru ^b   Toyohara, Takafumi ^b   Chohnabayashi, Naohiko ^b   Suzuki, Shin Ichi ^c   Nomura, Fumio ^d   Kroppenstedt, Reiner M ^e   Mikami, Yuzuru ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFETAMET PIVOXIL; CEFOTIAM; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HABEKACIN; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENUS; JAPAN; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA EXALBIDA; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA XISHANENSIS;

EID: 33745327004     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63850-0     Document Type: Article

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