Identification and Evaluation of Clinically Significant Nocardia brasiliensis, Nocardia farcinica and Nocardia otitidiscaviarum Strains Using Pyrolysis Mass Spectrometry (PyMS)

Authors

KAMİL IŞIK
ERGİN KARİPTAŞ
NEVZAT ŞAHİN
ALAN C. WARD
MICHEAL GOODFELLOW

DOI

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Abstract

Out of a total of thirty-nine Nocardia strains, eight species of N. brasiliensis, seventeen species of N. farcinica and fourteen species of N. otitidiscaviarum were identified using Pyrolysis mass spectrometry. N428, N477 N. brasiliensis; N669, N233 N. farcinica; and N231, N232 N. otitidiscaviarum duplicated strains were clustered in their own groups. Strains belonging to Nocardia brasiliensis, Nocardia farcinica and Nocardia otitidiscaviarum formed distinct pyrogroups corresponding to clusters defined in the numerical study. It can be concluded that PyMS provides a rapid and reproducible method of evaluating the taxonomic significance of Nocadia species.

Keywords

Nocardia, PyMS, Taxonomy

First Page

103

Last Page

111

Recommended Citation

IŞIK, KAMİL; KARİPTAŞ, ERGİN; ŞAHİN, NEVZAT; WARD, ALAN C.; and GOODFELLOW, MICHEAL (2001) "Identification and Evaluation of Clinically Significant Nocardia brasiliensis, Nocardia farcinica and Nocardia otitidiscaviarum Strains Using Pyrolysis Mass Spectrometry (PyMS)," Turkish Journal of Biology: Vol. 25: No. 2, Article 1. Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/biology/vol25/iss2/1