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Presumptive identification of nocardias in a clinical laboratory
Author(s) -
Collins C.H.,
Yates M.D.,
Uttley Anne H.C.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1988.tb04317.x
Subject(s) - identification (biology) , computational biology , medicine , biology , botany
One hundred and thirty‐six cultures of aerobic streptomycetes were examined by simple cultural and microscopical methods. Nocardia spp. were recognized by their resistance to lysozyme and identified to the three important species by casein, xanthine and tyrosine hydrolysis tests.