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Pleurésie purulente à Nocardia asteroides [PDF]

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2014
La pleurésie purulente à Nocardia asteroides est rare. Elle survient le plus souvent sur un terrain d'immunodépression. Nous rapportons une observation d'une pleurésie à Nocardia asteroides chez une patiente âgée de 60 ans, chez qui nous avons découvert ...
Régis Gothard Bopaka, Hind Janah, Wiam El Khattabi, Abdelaziz Aichane, Hicham Afif   +4 more
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Efficient biodegradation of di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate by a novel strain Nocardia asteroides LMB-7 isolated from electronic waste soil [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2022
The di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) degrading strain LMB-7 was isolated from electronic waste soil. According to its biophysical/biochemical characteristics and 16S rRNA gene analysis, the strain was identified as Nocardia asteroides.
Tian-Tian Chang, Zhi-Wei Lin, Liu-Qing Zhang, Wei-Bing Liu, Ying Zhou, Bang-Ce Ye   +5 more
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Case Report: Diagnosis of Nocardia asteroides infection using metagenomic next-generation sequencing of lymph node puncture tissue [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine
The Nocardia genus is an aerobic, Gram positive, opportunistic pathogen that primarily affects cell-mediated immunosuppressed patients. The clinical manifestation of nocardiosis varies widely, making it challenging to diagnose.
Ya Min Yang, Jing Guo, Ning Ning Dang
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Nocardia asteroides ocular infection [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis, 2014
Methods The ocular samples viz., corneal swab, corneal scraping, aqueous tap and vitreous tap were processed for culture and the isolated Nocardia species were further confirmed for speciation by standard microbiological procedures. Antibiotic susceptibility analysis for the confirmed isolates of N.
Shobana C, Sreekumar H, Aiswariya P, Selvam K, Singh Y, Gomathi P, Manikandan P.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Scleritis Caused by In Vitro Linezolid-Resistant Nocardia asteroides [PDF]

Case Reports in Ophthalmological Medicine, 2014
Purpose. To describe a case of postoperative scleritis caused by a novel strain of Nocardia resistant to linezolid and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX). Methods.
Andres Gonzalez, Kaihan Fakhar, David Gubernick, Sonal Tuli   +3 more
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Pulmonary Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in immunocompetent individuals: a case series and literature review [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases
Nocardia are filamentous, Gram-positive, aerobic bacteria widely distributed in diverse environments. Nocardia otitidiscaviarum, first isolated from the middle ear of guinea pigs, is an opportunistic pathogen. Nocardia primarily infects immunocompromised
Zhaohan Zhang, Shenghua Jiang, Jiwen Ge, Gaochao Lv, Nannan Zhang   +4 more
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Nocardia asteroides osteomyelitis [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1986
Summary Nocardia asteroides osteomyelitis has previously been described only in acutely ill patients. It may occur as an isolated event or part of the disease spectrum of disseminated nocardiosis. An 84 year old immune competent man with N.
J, De Luca, B, Walsh, W, Robbins, E B, Visconti   +3 more
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Nocardia asteroides keratitis. [PDF]

British Journal of Ophthalmology, 1979
Nocardia asteroides has been reported as the cause of keratitis in only 7 cases and of other ocular disease in another 12 cases. We report a case of N. asteroides keratitis that presented 3 weeks after rural trauma and progressed despite trials of appropriate antibiotics.
L W, Hirst, G K, Harrison, W G, Merz, W J, Stark   +3 more
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Isolation of keratinophilic fungi and aerobic actinomycetes from park soils in Gorgan, North of Iran [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Keratinophilic fungi are a group of fungi that colonize in various keratinous substrates and degrade them to the components with low molecular weight.
Abbasi Nejat, Z., Amini, A., Hanaf, P., Kohsar, F., Malek, E., Mohammadi, R., Moosazadeh, M., Niknejad, F.   +7 more
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Nocardia kroppenstedtii sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from a lung transplant patient with a pulmonary infection [PDF]

, 2014
An actinomycete, strain N1286T, isolated from a lung transplant patient with a pulmonary infection, was provisionally assigned to the genus Nocardia. The strain had chemotaxonomic and morphological properties typical of members of the genus Nocardia and ...
Amanda L. Jones, Andrew. J. Fisher, Andrews, Brown-Elliott, Collins, Eoin P. Judge, Everest, Felsenstein, Felsenstein, Gonzalez, Goodfellow, Goodfellow, Goodfellow, Gordon, Hasegawa, Isik, Jannat-Khah, John D. Perry, Jukes, Kate Gould, Kim, Kimberley Boagey, Kluge, Kroppenstedt, Kämpfer, Lechevalier, Margaret M. Hannan, Michael Goodfellow, Minnikin, Minnikin, Moser, Rahul Mahida, Ros Brown, Saitou, Sazak, Staneck, Sutcliffe, Tamura, Uchida   +38 more
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