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SUBMITTER: Daeschlein G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3252651 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
GMS Krankenhaushygiene interdisziplinar 20111215 1
During the course of a peripheral bronchial carcinoma with pulmonary and cerebral metastases a femoral abscess developed in a 49 year-old patient after radio- and chemotherapy. A bacterial strain, which was isolated four times from a deep wound of the left thigh was tentatively identified as a member of the genus Nocardia on the basis of selected phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics. The isolate was confirmed to belong to Nocardia abscessus by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. This species had ...[more]