1           Thirty-five N. cyriacigeorgica, 30 N. asteroides, 26 N. farcinica, 12 N. otitidiscaviarum,

2 yl phosphate, whereas strains of N. nova and N. asteroides sensu stricto were always negative.

3 pulmonary epithelial cells and HeLa cells by N. asteroides GUH-2.

4 t responses to murine pulmonary infection by N. asteroides.

5          All isolates of N. cyriacigeorgica, N. asteroides, N. abscessus, and N. otitidiscaviarum wer

6 sistant to imipenem, but N. cyriacigeorgica, N. asteroides, N. farcinica, and N. abscessus were only

7 ern types of Nocardia asteroides (except for N. asteroides drug pattern type IV, which gave inconsist

8 nfected intranasally with log-phase cells of N. asteroides GUH-2.

9                 Intratracheal inoculation of N. asteroides rapidly up-regulated the CXC chemokines ma

10 iation of N. farcinica from other members of N. asteroides complex is important because this species

11 major unresolved issue is the type strain of N. asteroides, as the present one (ATCC 19247), chosen b

12  with DNA-DNA hybridization, indicated that "N. asteroides drug pattern IV," "N. transvalensis new ta

13 or Nocardia sp. type strains (except for the N. asteroides type strain) and representative isolates o

14 bility pattern type VI and distinct from the N. asteroides sensu stricto strain ATCC 19247(T).

15  in vitro susceptibilities of members of the N. asteroides complex to a panel of nine antimicrobial a

16 or culture growth and identification of this N. asteroides isolate affected both initial therapeutic

17 esulted in strikingly increased mortality to N. asteroides infection.

18 n patterns were unique for N. transvalensis, N. asteroides IV, and N. brevicatena.

19  the proposed new species Nocardia wallacei (N. asteroides drug pattern IV) and N. blacklockiae (N. t