Organisms designated as Nocardia asteroides drug pattern type VI are members of the species Nocardia cyriacigeorgica

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2257-2259

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

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; NEW SPECIES; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA CYRIACIGEORGICA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; NOCARDIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA CYRIACIGEORGICA;

EID: 34547616796     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00133-07     Document Type: Article

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