Kageyama Akiko, Yazawa Katsukiyo, Kudo Takuji, Taniguchi Hiroko, Nishimura Kazuko, Mikami Yuzuru
Research Center for Pathogenic Fungi and Microbial Toxicoses, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8673, Japan.
Nihon Ishinkin Gakkai Zasshi. 2004;45(1):17-21. doi: 10.3314/jjmm.45.17.
Nocardia abscessus, a recently established species, was isolated from patients during 2000. In the course of our taxonomic studies on 121 clinical Nocardia isolates in Japan 5 strains isolated from patients plus one strain isolated from soil in Japan, were found to have similar physiological characteristics to those of N. abscessus. Phylogenetic studies using 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis confirmed that these strains belong to N. abscessus. This is the first isolation report of N. abscessus from soil as well as from clinical samples in Japan.
脓肿诺卡菌是一个最近确定的菌种,于2000年从患者体内分离得到。在我们对日本121株临床诺卡菌分离株进行分类学研究的过程中,发现从患者体内分离出的5株以及从日本土壤中分离出的1株,具有与脓肿诺卡菌相似的生理特征。利用16S rRNA基因序列分析进行的系统发育研究证实,这些菌株属于脓肿诺卡菌。这是日本首次从土壤以及临床样本中分离出脓肿诺卡菌的报告。