The First Isolation ofNocardia veteranafrom a Human Mycetoma
Open Access
- 1 June 2002
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Microbiology and Immunology
- Vol. 46 (6) , 409-412
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1348-0421.2002.tb02713.x
Abstract
The clinical isolates from biopsy specimen human subcutaneous nodule developed orange‐colored and wrinkled colonies on Sabouraud's dextrose agar at 24 C for 2 weeks. The isolates were aerobic and gram‐positive. The bacteria were rod‐shaped to coccoid and 1 × 5 μm in size. The assimilation tests revealed that the clinical isolate was identical to a reference strain of Nocardia veterana. A nucleotide sequence analysis of the 16S ribosomal DNA from the isolate and a reference strain of N. veterana showed 99.8% similarity. All data are consistent with the conclusion that the isolate in this human case of mycetoma is N. veterana.Keywords
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