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Nocardia aobensis Sp. Nov., isolated from patients in Japan.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2004
Kageyama Akiko, Suzuki Shin-Ichi, Yazawa Katsukiyo, Nishimura Kazuko, Kroppenstedt Reiner M, Mikami Yuzuru
Abstract excerpt
Five clinical isolates, strains IFM 0137, 0372(T), 0496, 0556, and 0952, were provisionally assigned to the genus Nocardia based on morphological criteria. Nearly complete 16S rDNA sequences were determined for these strains. These data showed that they are most similar to that of Nocardia africana, Nocardia cerradoensis and Nocardia veterana. However, DNA-DNA relatedness data showed that the five strains were of...
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