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Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Gordonia Species in Japanese Clinical Samples During 1998–2008

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During 1998–2008, there were 31 strains of Gordonia species isolated from clinical specimens in our laboratory. Our identification of the 31 strains of Gordonia species showed that major pathogenic Gordonia species in Japan were classifiable, respectively into 14 and 13 strains of Gordonia sputi and Gordonia bronchialis. The four remaining strains were identified as three Gordonia species: G. aichiensis (2 strains), and G. terrae (1 strain), and G. otitidis (1 strain). Results of drug susceptibility tests for these 31 strains of Gordonia isolates are reported herein.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by a Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (C), and by a Program, through the Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, of the Japanese Government during 2006–2008 to YM. National BioResource Project (NBRP) also appreciates the gift of most of the Gordonia strains used in this work. We thank Ms Tomoko Sakai for her excellent technical assistance in DNA sequence analysis.

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    Kazuki Aoyama, Yingqian Kang, Katsukiyo Yazawa, Tohru Gonoi, Katsuhiko Kamei & Yuzuru Mikami

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An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11046-009-9269-6

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Aoyama, K., Kang, Y., Yazawa, K. et al. Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Gordonia Species in Japanese Clinical Samples During 1998–2008. Mycopathologia 168, 175–183 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-009-9213-9

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