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Isolation of Toxigenic Nocardiopsis Strains from Indoor Environments and Description of Two New Nocardiopsis Species, N. exhalans sp. nov. and N. umidischolae sp. nov. ¨ MPFER,2 GEORG AULING,3 JOANNA S. P. PELTOLA,1* MARIA A. ANDERSSON,1 PETER KA 4 5 ¨ REINER M. KROPPENSTEDT, HANS-JURGEN BUSSE, MIRJA S. SALKINOJA-SALONEN,1 6 AND FREDERICK A. RAINEY Received 4 December 2000/Accepted 17 June 2001
Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland1; Institut fu ¨r Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Justus-Liebig Universita ¨t, D-35392 Giessen,2 Institut fu ¨r Mikrobiologie, Universita ¨t Hannover, D-30167 Hannover,3 and Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, D-38124 Braunschweig,4 Germany; Institut fu ¨r Bakteriologie und Tierhygiene, Veterina ¨rmedizinische Universita ¨t, A-1210 Vienna, Austria5; and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 708036 Nocardiopsis strains were isolated from water-damaged indoor environments. Two strains (N. alba subsp. alba 704a and a strain representing a novel species, ES10.1) as well as strains of N. prasina, N. lucentensis, and N. tropica produced methanol-soluble toxins that paralyzed the motility of boar spermatozoa at
