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Cutaneous Nocardia asteroides infection of nontraumatic origin Infecção cutânea de origem não traumática por Nocardia asteroides

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1994
This paper reports a case of cutaneous infection of nontraumatic origin caused by Nocardia asteroides in a hospitalized patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Jorge O Lopes, Maria C Bassanesi, Sydney H Alves, Adenilde Salla, Jeni P Benevenga, Milton S. Castro   +5 more
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Pulmonary Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Report. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT The patient, a 56‐year‐old female with a history of childhood bronchiectasis and controlled hypertension, presented with fever, cough, and hemoptysis. Despite initial treatment for exacerbation of bronchiectasis, her condition worsened, leading to sepsis. Blood tests revealed leukocytosis and elevated CRP.
Ibrahimi R, Poursadegh F, Mozdourian M, Rezaeetalab F, Emamdadi Z, Yousefabadi SA, Samadi S.   +6 more
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Nocardia asteroides Native Valve Endocarditis [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2001
A 39-year-old man with a history of injection drug abuse was given a diagnosis of Nocardia asteroides native aortic valve endocarditis, and he required valve replacement therapy, despite having received potent antimicrobial therapy. This is the first reported proven case of native valve endocarditis due to Nocardia species.
A, Watson, P, French, M, Wilson
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Acute primary cutaneous Nocardia asteroides infection in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. Case report Infecção primária cutânea aguda por Nocardia asteroides em paciente com lupus eritematoso sistêmico

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1995
We report a case of acute primary cutaneous infection of traumatic origin caused by Nocardia asteroides, appeared as cellulitis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Jorge O. Lopes, Cristina B. Silva, Cláudio Kmohan, Loiva T. O. Oliveira, Nara L. F. Dal Forno, Cleonice C. S. Pereira   +5 more
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P neumocystis jirovecii pneumonia is rare in renal transplant recipients receiving only one month of prophylaxis [PDF]

, 2011
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89470/1/tid692 ...
Arend, Batiuk, Calderón, Clark, de Boer, EBPG Expert Group on Renal Transplantation, Fishman, Fox, Gianella, Gordon, Hibberd, Kotton, Martin, Neff, Oz, Peleg, Ponce, Rabodonirina, Radisic, Schmoldt, Sollinger, Yazaki   +21 more
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Nocardial infections: report of 22 cases Infecções por Nocardia species: relato de 22 casos

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2007
Twenty-two cases of nocardial infections were diagnosed in our city between 1977- 1998. All patients whose clinical specimens showed Nocardia spp. at Gram stain, which were further confirmed by culture, were selected to be included in the study.
Maria Bernadete F. Chedid, Marcio F. Chedid, Nelson S. Porto, Cecília B. Severo, Luiz Carlos Severo   +4 more
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The Nocardial aph(2″) Gene Confers Tobramycin and Gentamicin Resistance and Is an Effective Positive Selection Marker in Mycobacteria and Nocardia

Microorganisms, 2023
The current study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of using the aminoglycoside 2″-O-phosphotransferase aph(2″) gene as a positive selection marker in N. asteroides, M. smegmatis, M. abscessus and M. tuberculosis.
Yizhak Hershko, Amos Adler, Daniel Barkan   +2 more
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Blood, Bone and Brain Nocardiosis Infection in an HIV-Infected Man [PDF]

, 2016
Disseminated nocardiosis is a rare and complicated opportunistic bacterial infection with propensity of delay in establishing the correct diagnosis and high frequency for misdiagnosis and due to the non-specific clinical presentation and the inherent ...
Yuhana, M. Y. (Muhammad)
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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, Talal Mayman, Ziad A. Memish   +2 more
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A Comparison of Nocardia asteroides and Nocardia brasiliensis [PDF]

Journal of General Microbiology, 1959
SUMMARY: A description of Nocardia asteroides (Eppinger) Blanchard, based on the examination of 98 strains, is presented and compared with a description of N. brasiliensis (Lindenberg) Castellani and Chalmers, based on 50 strains. Characteristics common to freshly isolated strains, variants of the same strain, and old stock strains are used in the ...
R E, GORDON, J M, MIHM
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