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QJM, 2014 A 61-year-old man, with a 3-year history of intravenous drug abuse, diabetes mellitus and hypertension, presented with a 2-week history of progressive left hemiplegia. At admission, he was emaciated, febrile and his Glasgow coma scale score was 14/15. He demonstrated a left upper motor neuron facial weakness, grade 0/5 power in his left arm and leg and
Abdullah Balkhair +2 more
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Monoclonal antibodies to Nocardia asteroides and Nocardia brasiliensis antigens [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1990 Nocardia asteroides and Nocardia brasiliensis whole-cell extracts were used as antigens to generate monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). Six stable hybrid cell lines secreting anti-Nocardia spp. MAbs were obtained. These were characterized by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, Western blot (immunoblot), and immunofluorescence assay.
H Zlotnik, A M Díaz, Teresa I. Jiménez
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Idiopathic CD4 Lymphocytopenia (HIV-Negative AIDS): Case Report and Literature Review
Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials, 2019 Idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL), also known as non-HIV AIDS, is a rare disease characterized by opportunistic infections, malignancies, and autoimmune diseases. Idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia is defined as CD4+ T-lymphocyte level below 300/mm3 in at
Firdevs AKSOY +7 more
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Nocardia abscessus brain abscess in an immunocompetent host
Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2013 Summary: Nocardia brain abscesses typically occur in immunocompromised patients. Most cases of nocardiosis are caused by the Nocardia asteroides complex and Nocardia brasiliensis. Here, we present a patient with a Nocardia abscessus brain abscess.
Jaffar A. Al Tawfiq +2 more
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Comparative Genomics and Metabolomics in the Genus Nocardia
mSystems, 2020 Our work emphasizes that Nocardia represent a prolific source for natural products rivaling better-characterized genera such as Streptomyces or Amycolatopsis. Furthermore, we showed that large-scale analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters using similarity
Daniel Männle +7 more
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Rapid Detection of Nocardia by Next-Generation Sequencing
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020 In this original study, we retrospectively reviewed the cases of nocardiosis diagnosed through culture and next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods between 2014 and 2018 in Huashan Hospital and found out that the latter way can not only improve the ...
S. Weng +6 more
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Bacteremia and adrenal gland abscess due to Nocardia cyriacigeorgica: a case report and review
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Nocardia cyriacigeorgica is one of the most common Nocardia species found in human infections, recently reclassified. Even though Nocardia may affect all organs by hematogenous dissemination, bacteremia are uncommon.
Florian Saunier +5 more
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Nocardia paucivorans brain abscess. Clinical and microbiological characteristics
IDCases, 2018 Nocardia paucivorans brain abscesses are unusual in humans. Sixteen cases of this infection have been reported in the world medical literature. There is precise clinical information available from nine patients.
Luis Aliaga +5 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 A multispecies outbreak of Nocardia occurred among heart transplant recipients (HTR), but not lung transplant recipients (LTR), in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, during 2018–2019.
Jonathan Li +12 more
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A Rare Case of Drug-Resistant Infection in a Renal Transplant Patient
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2020 Nocardia transvalensis is a rare species of Nocardia and is known to be a drug-resistant organism. Multiple cases have been reported of Nocardia species causing opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts.
Rajan Kapoor MD +5 more
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