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Prescottia equi gen. nov., comb. nov.: a new home for an old pathogen [PDF]
, 2012 The taxonomic status of Rhodococcus equi, originally isolated from foal specimens, has been the subject of discussion for a number of years. The chequered history of the taxon has prompted this polyphasic analysis of R. equi strains, close members of the
Goodfellow, Michael +2 more
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The Mycetoma Knowledge Gap: Identification of Research Priorities [PDF]
, 2014 Mycetoma is a tropical disease which is caused by a taxonomically diverse range of actinomycetes (actinomycetoma) and fungi (eumycetoma). The disease was only recently listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a neglected tropical disease (NTD ...
Fahal, Ahmed Hassan +6 more
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Nocardial infections: report of 22 cases Infecções por Nocardia species: relato de 22 casos
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2007 Twenty-two cases of nocardial infections were diagnosed in our city between 1977- 1998. All patients whose clinical specimens showed Nocardia spp. at Gram stain, which were further confirmed by culture, were selected to be included in the study.
Maria Bernadete F. Chedid +4 more
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Microorganisms, 2023 The current study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of using the aminoglycoside 2″-O-phosphotransferase aph(2″) gene as a positive selection marker in N. asteroides, M. smegmatis, M. abscessus and M. tuberculosis.
Yizhak Hershko +2 more
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Nocardia abscessus brain abscess in an immunocompetent host
Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2013 Summary: Nocardia brain abscesses typically occur in immunocompromised patients. Most cases of nocardiosis are caused by the Nocardia asteroides complex and Nocardia brasiliensis. Here, we present a patient with a Nocardia abscessus brain abscess.
Jaffar A. Al Tawfiq +2 more
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A Comparison of Nocardia asteroides and Nocardia brasiliensis [PDF]
Journal of General Microbiology, 1959 SUMMARY: A description of Nocardia asteroides (Eppinger) Blanchard, based on the examination of 98 strains, is presented and compared with a description of N. brasiliensis (Lindenberg) Castellani and Chalmers, based on 50 strains. Characteristics common to freshly isolated strains, variants of the same strain, and old stock strains are used in the ...
R E, GORDON, J M, MIHM
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2008 Psoas muscle abscess is an uncommon infection that have been diagnosed increasingly in the last years. We present a case of a patient with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection who developed a disseminated infection due to Nocardia asteroides ...
Marcelo Corti +5 more
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Observation of Nocardia Asteroides Complex in a Patient with Corneal Ulceration: The First Case Report from Iran [PDF]
Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016 Background & Aims: Nocardia asteroides is gram-positive, partially acid-fast, aerobic actinomycetes which cause a wide range of skin infections, and pulmonary, cerebral, and ocular infection.
Seyedeh Zeinab Seyyed-Yousef +6 more
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Disseminated Nocardia cyriacigeorgia causing pancreatitis in a haploidentical stem cell transplant recipient. [PDF]
, 2017 We report the first published case of acute pancreatitis secondary to disseminated nocardiosis in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipient on chronic immunosuppression for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
Chen, MD, Jason +4 more
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Current diagnostic tools and management modalities of Nocardia keratitis
Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection, 2020 Nocardia species are an uncommon but important cause of keratitis. The purpose of this review is to discus previous published papers relation to the epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis and management of Nocardia keratitis.
Mohammad Soleimani +5 more
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