Nocardia shimofusensis sp. now., isolated from soil, and Nocardia higoensis sp. nov., isolated from a patient with lung nocardiosis in Japan

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1927-1931

  Kageyama, Akiko ^a   Yazawa, Katsukiyo ^a   Mukai, Akira ^a   Kinoshita, Mari ^b   Takata, Nobukatsu ^b   Nishimura, Kazuko ^a   Kroppenstedt, Reiner M ^c   Mikami, Yuzuru ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Health Insurance Yatsushiro General Hospital   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; RNA 16S; STEROID; TOBRAMYCIN; UREA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; JAPAN; MORPHOLOGY; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIA HIGOENSIS; NOCARDIA SHIMOFUSENSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROFLORA;

AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIA HIGOENSIS; NOCARDIA SHIMOFUSENSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 9744278243     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63061-0     Document Type: Article

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