Nocardia ignorata, a new agent of human nocardiosis isolated from respiratory specimens in Europe and soil samples from Kuwait.

J Clin Microbiol

Laboratoire de Mycologie Fondamentale et Appliquée aux Biotechnologies Industrielles, UMR CNRS 5557, Faculté de Pharmacie, University Claude Bernard Lyon I, 8 Avenue Rockefeller, 69373 Lyon Cedex 08, France.

Published: December 2005

Nocardia ignorata is a recently described species identified on the basis of a single isolate of unknown origin. Here we describe the epidemiological, phenotypic, and phylogenetic characteristics of this new species, based on five new clinical and soil isolates.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1317163PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.43.12.6167-6170.2005DOI Listing

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