Nocardia species
Identification of Medically Relevant Nocardia Species with an Abbreviated Battery of Tests
... all Nocardia isolates to the species level; therefore, a combination of methods was ...distinguish species with similar API 20C ...two species from ...for species identification of ...
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secA1 Gene Sequence Polymorphisms for Species Identification of Nocardia Species and Recognition of Intraspecies Genetic Diversity
... the Nocardia essential secretory protein SecA1 gene (secA1) for species identification of 120 American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) and clinical isolates of Nocardia (16 species) was studied ...
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Analysis of secA1 Gene Sequences for Identification of Nocardia Species
... identifying Nocardia isolates by phenotypic methods, sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene has become the “gold standard” for the identification of No- cardia isolates to the species ...new species ...
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Identification, Typing, and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Main Clinical Nocardia Species in Spain According to Their gyrB and rpoB Genes
... each species examined, five and 14 housekeeping genes were tested as markers of diversity in Nocardia (6, ...main Nocardia species, type them at the inter- and intraspecies levels, and provide ...
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Profiling of Nocardia Species and Other Aerobic Actinomycetes from South Africa: Comparative Evaluation of Broth Microdilution versus the Etest
... 39 Nocardia species, using sequence-based (16S rRNA) ...the Nocardia isolates ranged from ...For Nocardia species, uniform susceptibility to co-trimoxazole, amikacin, and linezolid was ...
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Analysis of Multiple Differing Copies of the 16S rRNA Gene in Five Clinical Isolates and Three Type Strains of Nocardia Species and Implications for Species Assignment
... of Nocardia that showed ambiguous bases within the variable region of the 16S rRNA gene sequence were evaluated for the presence of multiple copies of this ...three Nocardia species, Nocardia ...
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Phylogeny and Identification of Nocardia Species on the Basis of Multilocus Sequence Analysis
... Nocardia species identification is difficult due to a complex and rapidly changing taxonomy, the failure of 16S rRNA and cellular fatty acid analysis to discriminate many species, and the ...
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First Case of Cerebral Abscess Due to a Novel Nocardia Species in an Immunocompromised Patient
... of Nocardia species ...of Nocardia has become more complex due to the description of new species that have made some clusters bigger or have even led to the creation of new ...different ...
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A PCR Based Intergenic Spacer Region Capillary Gel Electrophoresis Typing Method for Identification and Subtyping of Nocardia Species
... Subsequent analysis of 133 clinical isolates provided further evidence that the IGS-CGE assay was highly sensitive (98%) in differentiating the 19 Nocardia species studied and assigning them to the correct ...
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gyrB Analysis as a Tool for Identifying Nocardia Species and Exploring Their Phylogeny
... new species to be described (5, ...similar species can be difficult to establish when using 16S rRNA-based trees ...across Nocardia species and has been used in the identification, typing, and ...
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First Case of Actinomycetoma in France Due to a Novel Nocardia Species, Nocardia boironii sp. nov.
... complete sequence of the 16S rRNA gene (1,325-nucleotide [nt] fragment) was determined using SQ1 (5=-AGAGTTGATCMTGGCTCAG-3=) and SQ6 (5=-CGGTGTGTACAAGGCCC-3=) primers, as described by Rodriguez-Nava et al. (9). The ...
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Multisite Reproducibility of the Broth Microdilution Method for Susceptibility Testing of Nocardia Species
... of Nocardia species and highlight the variation in test interpretation that may occur even within a par- ticular ...of Nocardia isolates but reported only ...previous Nocardia susceptibility ...
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Identification of Nocardia Species by Restriction Endonuclease Analysis of an Amplified Portion of the 16S rRNA Gene
... The 16S rRNA gene is known to be highly conserved among bacteria and is frequently used in the determination of organ- ism relatedness (5, 6, 19); however, variable regions do exist within the gene, and some sequences ...
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Distribution of Nocardia Species in Clinical Samples and Their Routine Rapid Identification in the Laboratory
... common species en- countered in this survey ...of species have been ...the Nocardia species less commonly occurring in hu- ...three species, ...
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Molecular Typing of Nocardia Species
... a Nocardia specific digoxigenin-labeled probe in specimens from the cerebral cortices of monkeys experimentally infected with ...of Nocardia and neurodegenerative ...the Nocardia asteroides complex ...
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Novel method for rapid identification of Nocardia species by detection of preformed enzymes
... of Nocardia species that is more technically simple, accurate, and rapid than current standard methods of ...of Nocardia representing five species were used in the ...as Nocardia ...
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Evaluation of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry for Identification of Nocardia Species
... bacterial species, it allows determina- tion to the species level within a few minutes when the analysis is performed on whole cells, cell lysates, or crude bacterial extracts ...as Nocardia ...
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Abscess of adrenal gland caused by disseminated subacute Nocardia farcinica pneumonia A case report and mini review of the literature
... On the third postoperative day the patient developed a distal focussed hemiparesis of the left arm, without sensi- tive deficiencies. On the very same day the preliminary results of microbiological analysis of the ...
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Nocardia wallacei sp nov and Nocardia blacklockiae sp nov , Human Pathogens and Members of the “Nocardia transvalensis Complex”
... Case 2 (isolate 6, N. blacklockiae). A 37-year-old Australian aborigine with a history of chronic alcoholism presented with a 3-week history of fever, chest pain, and cough with purulent sputum production. A chest ...
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Nocardia mexicana sp nov , a New Pathogen Isolated from Human Mycetomas
... for species identification by Steingrube et ...from Nocardia species previously tested by Steingrube et ...16S Nocardia-genus specific primers previously described (25) were negative, ...
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