Nocardial infections: report of 22 cases Infecções por Nocardia species: relato de 22 casos [PDF]
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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Differential activity of innate defense antimicrobial peptides against
BMC Microbiology, 2010 Background Members of the genus Nocardia are ubiquitous environmental saprophytes capable to cause human pulmonary, disseminated and cutaneous nocardiosis or bovine mastitis.
Wagner Dirk +6 more
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Efficacy of DA-7218, a New Oxazolidinone Prodrug, in the Treatment of Experimental Actinomycetoma Produced by Nocardia brasiliensis [PDF]
Molecules, 2008 Two recently synthesized oxazolidinones: (R)-3-(4-(2-(2-methyltetrazol-5-yl)-pyridin-5-yl)-3-fluorophenyl)-5-hydroxymethyloxazolidin-2-one (DA-7157) and itscorresponding pro-drug (R)-3-(4-(2-(2-methyltetrazol-5-yl)-pyridin-5-yl)-3-fluorophenyl)-2-oxo-5 ...
Lucio Vera-Cabrera +8 more
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Decrease of virulence for BALB/c mice produced by continuous subculturing
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2011 Background Subculturing has been extensively used to attenuate human pathogens. In this work we studied the effect of continuous subculturing of Nocardia brasiliensis HUJEG-1 on virulence in a murine model.
Ocampo-Candiani Jorge +6 more
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An unusual successful treatment with non-sulfonamides: primary cutaneous nocardiosis caused by Nocardia brasiliensis. [PDF]
Ther Clin Risk Manag, 2018 Chen N, Qin Q, Sun KD, Luo D, Cheng QH.
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Revista Argentina de Microbiología, 2004 Considerando que algunos autores han reportado un aumento en la cantidad de algunas inmunoglobulinas en los pacientes con actinomicetoma, en este trabajo nos propusimos determinar diferencias en la producción de IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, IgG4 e IgM en 25 ...
L. J. Méndez-Tovar +8 more
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Micetoma por Nocardia brasiliensis: reporte de caso
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2003 Se presenta el caso de un paciente peruano, agricultor, con una infección cutánea de origen traumático causada por Nocardia brasiliensis, que evolucionó hacia la amputación del miembro inferior afectado.
Miriam Guevara R +4 more
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<i>Nocardia</i> Infection Presented as Intramuscular Abscess in a Kidney Transplant Recipient: Case Report and Literature Review. [PDF]
Case Rep NephrolBackground Nocardia is a gram‐positive bacterium capable of causing both local and systemic infections, typically in immunocompromised patients. The most common clinical presentation is pulmonary infection. Muscle abscess due to Nocardia infection without disseminated nocardiosis is rare.
Spangenberg G +4 more
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Global Burden of Human Mycetoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2013 Mycetoma is a chronic infectious disease of the subcutaneous tissue with a high morbidity. This disease has been reported from countries between 30°N and 15°S since 1840 but the exact burden of disease is not known.
Sande, W.W.J. (Wendy) van de
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The impact of AlphaFold Protein Structure Database on the fields of life sciences
PROTEOMICS, Volume 23, Issue 17, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Arguably, 2020 was the year of high‐accuracy protein structure predictions, with AlphaFold 2.0 achieving previously unseen accuracy in the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP). In 2021, DeepMind and EMBL‐EBI developed the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database to make an unprecedented number of reliable protein structure ...
Mihaly Varadi, Sameer Velankar
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