Key references: Nocardiosis

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  • Ntziora F, Falagas ME. Linezolid for the treatment of patients with central nervous system infection. Ann Pharmacother 2007;41(2):296–308. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17284501
  • Pasciak M, Dacko W, Sikora J, Gurlaga D, Pawlik K, Miekisiak G, et al. Creation of an in-house matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry Corynebacterineae database overcomes difficulties in identification of Nocardia farcinica clinical isolates. J Clin Microbiol 2015;53(8):2611–21. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26041903
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