Nocardia ignorata, a new agent of human nocardiosis isolated from respiratory specimens in Europe and soil samples from Kuwait.
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Nocardia ignorata is a recently described species identified on the basis of a single isolate of unknown origin. Here we describe the epidemiological, phenotypic, and phylogenetic characteristics of this new species, based on five new clinical and soil isolates.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical microbiology
دوره 43 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005