Pulmonary Nocardiosis
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1. Nocardia veterana: disseminated infection with urinary tract infection
Nocardia spp. are a group of aerobic actinomycetes widely distributed in soil, and associated with severe opportunistic infections, essentially pulmonary infections. We report the first case of disseminated infection associated with urinary tract infection caused by Nocardia veterana . The diagnosis was difficult; despite the presence of pulmonary nodules,
Braz J Infect Dis. Publicado em: 2015-04
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2. Nocardial infections : report of 22 cases / Infecções por Nocardia species: relato de 22 casos
São apresentados 22 casos de infecção por Nocardia species entre 1977 e 1998, apresentando-se seu quadro clínico e evolução. Todos os pacientes cujos espécimes clínicos mostraram microorganismos sugestivos de Nocardia spp. à coloração de Gram, confirmados posteriormente por cultura, foram incluídos no estudo. Os dados dos pacientes que obtiveram
Publicado em: 2010
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3. Primary pulmonary nocardiosis: case report
Hamal, P. B. (1974).Thorax, 29, 382-386. Primary pulmonary nocardiosis: a case report. A case of fulminating pulmonary nocardiosis is reported. Diagnosis was made before death but too late for treatment to be effective. At necropsy extensive multiple pulmonary abscesses with involvement of the pleura, resulting in an empyema, were discovered. One cervical no
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4. Nocardiosis: a neglected chronic lung disease in Africa?
Nocardia organisms were cultured from the sputum of 11 patients at the central hospitals in Harare, Zimbabwe, over a 12 month period. Pulmonary nocardiosis was diagnosed in one further patient on the basis of direct microscopy. Among the nine patients available for follow up, pulmonary nocardiosis was considered to be the major clinical problem in six. The p
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5. Unexpected pulmonary nocardiosis in a non-immunocompromised patient.
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6. Pulmonary nocardiosis in a west African man with HIV-1 infection.
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7. Pulmonary nocardiosis in a 3-year-old child
Until 1960, 179 cases of infection with Nocardia asteroides had been described in the world literature. Seventeen cases in children were reported by 1963. The organism is a common saprophyte in nature with probably a world-wide distribution. Infection can be primary but is more common in patients with underlying malignancy, auto-immune disease or preceding t
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8. Blood-borne pulmonary infection with Nocardia asteroides in a heroin addict.
Nocardia asteroides frequently causes primary lung infection with possible hematogenous dissemination to various organs, especially in patients with altered immune responses. The preponderance of pulmonary infections suggests an airborne route of contamination. We report a case of pulmonary nocardiosis in a previously healthy intravenous heroin abuser. The c
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9. Isolation of Nocardia asteroides from respiratory specimens by using selective buffered charcoal-yeast extract agar.
Nocardiosis is difficult to diagnose clinically and by laboratory methods. A patient presented with disease compatible with pulmonary malignancy, but Nocardia asteroides was isolated on buffered charcoal-yeast extract agar. Investigation revealed that this medium may be a suitable selective primary isolation medium for Nocardia species from respiratory speci
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10. Nocardia brasiliensis Cellulitis in a Heart Transplant Patient
Three months after undergoing heart transplantation, a 55-year-old man presented with N. brasiliensis cellulitis resulting from a splinter wound acquired during yard work. Surgical débridement was necessary before the infection responded to medical treatment. Although pulmonary nocardiosis is a well-documented complication of immunosuppressive therapy, this
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11. Not everything acid fast is Mycobacterium tuberculosis--a case report.
The Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) stain is important in identifying organisms that are acid fast, principally Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, decolorisation with a weaker acid concentration (for example 1% hydrochloric acid), often used in ZN staining in histology, can result in a wider variety of organisms appearing acid fast and can be a cause of misidentificati
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12. Nocardia africana sp. nov., a New Pathogen Isolated from Patients with Pulmonary Infections
Eight actinomycete strains, isolated from 8 out of 400 sputum samples examined, taken from patients with pulmonary diseases at the Chest Unit of Khartoum Teaching Hospital in the Sudan, were provisionally assigned to the genus Nocardia according to morphological criteria. These isolates were studied further in order to establish their taxonomic status. They
American Society for Microbiology.