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Nocardia africana sp. nov., a new pathogen isolated from patients with pulmonary infections.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2001
Hamid M E, Maldonado L, Sharaf Eldin G S, Mohamed M F, Saeed N S, Goodfellow M
Abstract excerpt
Eight actinomycete strains, isolated from 8 out of 400 sputum samples examined, taken from patients with pulmonary diseases at the Chest Unit of Khartoum Teaching Hospital in the Sudan, were provisionally assigned to the genus Nocardia according to morphological criteria. These isolates were studied further in order to establish their taxonomic status. They were found to have morphological and chemical properties...
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