Nocardia wallacei sp. nov. and Nocardia blacklockiae sp. nov., human pathogens and members of the "Nocardia transvalensis complex"

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1178-1184

  Conville, Patricia S ^a   Brown, June M ^b   Steigerwalt, Arnold G ^b   Brown Elliott, Barbara A ^c   Witebsky, Frank G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 65; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; PROTEIN SECA; PROTEIN SECA1; SULFADIAZINE; SULFADIMIDINE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA BLACKLOCKIAE; NOCARDIA TRANSVALENSIS; NOCARDIA WALLACEI; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA TRANSVALENSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42449112103     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02011-07     Document Type: Article

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