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NOCARDIA CHOROIDAL ABSCESS Risk Factors, Treatment Strategies, and Visual Outcomes
Purpose:To describe the risk factors, clinical course, ancillary test findings, treatment strategies, and visual outcomes of a series of patients with choroidal abscesses caused by endogenous Nocardia.Methods:This retrospective, consecutive ...
Silva, Ruwan A. +4 more
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Nocardial infections have been rare after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We report 10 recent cases of late-onset nocardiosis (median time of onset of 508 days after transplantation) primarily in patients on high doses of ...
Molina, Alfonso
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OCCURRENCE OF NOCARDIA SPECIES IN RAW MILK
Two hundred and forty random samples of raw milk including cow's (90), buffalo's (90), sheep's (30) and goat's milk (30) were collected from dairy farms, dairy shops and street vendors in Assiut city.
S. NASR +3 more
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Nocardia sputum staining [PDF]
An 85-year-old man with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) visited our hospital with cough and sputum expectoration for the past 3 days. His home had been undergoing remodeling for the past 1 month. His respiration rate was 18 breaths/min; body temperature 37.4°C and SpO2 95% (nasal cannula: 2 l/min). Coarse crackles …
T, Kenzaka, A, Kumabe
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Huoyang Lv,1,* Mengyuan Chen,1,2,* Youqi Ji,1,3,* Liya Pan,4 Xin Hong,1,5 Yumei Ge1– 6 1Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital (Affiliated People’s Hospital, Hangzhou Medical College), Hangzhou, Zhejiang ...
Hong X, Lv H, Chen M, Ge Y, Ji Y, Pan L
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A 69-year-old woman reported the appearance of a painful lump in the lower outer quadrant of right breast for 10 days. The patient had history of relapsing uveitis poorly responsive to therapy, thus she underwent high-dose steroid therapy for about 6 months.
Simbula L +6 more
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Nocardiosis is an extremely rare, opportunistic, Gram-positive bacterial infection that has a high mortality rate in those patients who are immunocompromised in the presence of disseminated disease.We describe a case of an elderly lady being treated with
Castle, George, Heath, Gregory
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Macrolides (clarithromycin and azithromycin) are a mainstay of therapy for infections caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM). Historically, macrolide resistance in RGM species is associated with mutations in the 23S rRNA gene and chromosomal ...
Christopher I. Graham +8 more
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First case of Nocardia nova spinal abscess in an immunocompetent patient
Nocardia are a group of aerobic actinomycetes that are filamentous gram-positive, weakly acid-fast, and cause opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients.
Seung Bok Hong +4 more
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When to consider an inborn error of immunity: clues for physicians
Abstract The term inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) refers to the rapidly expanding group of genetic disorders causing dysregulation of the immune system. With improved genetic testing in recent years, the number of defined IEIs and their range of phenotypic presentations has grown vastly, with more than 550 IEIs now described.
Meera Thangarajah, Lucinda J. Berglund
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