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Nocardia arthritidis sp. nov., a New Pathogen Isolated from a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Japan
1 Jun 2004
Abstract excerpt
Two different bacterial strains with different drug susceptibilities were isolated from the sputum and an inflammatory discharge from a swelling in the left thigh of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. Both bacterial strains were provisionally assigned to the genus Nocardia on the basis of their morphological and chemotaxonomic characteristics and were further studied in order to establish their taxonomic...
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