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SUBMITTER: Godreuil S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC156558 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20030601 6
Nocardia veterana is a recently characterized species within the genus Nocardia, and only three human clinical isolates have been reported for this species. We describe a case of ascitic fluid infection in an immunocompromised patient due to N. veterana. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a Nocardia sp. strain from ascitic fluid and the fourth report of N. veterana isolated from human samples. Chemotaxonomic methods showed the strain to belong to the genus Nocardia, and identification ...[more]