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Disseminated nocardiosis with psoas abscess in a patient with AIDS: first reported case Nocardiose disseminada com abscesso do psoas em paciente com AIDS: primeiro caso relatado

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2008
Psoas muscle abscess is an uncommon infection that have been diagnosed increasingly in the last years. We present a case of a patient with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection who developed a disseminated infection due to Nocardia asteroides ...
Marcelo Corti, Rubén Solari, Luis De Carolis, Diana Cangelos, Mario Bianchi, Ricardo Negroni   +5 more
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Global Burden of Human Mycetoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2013
Mycetoma is a chronic infectious disease of the subcutaneous tissue with a high morbidity. This disease has been reported from countries between 30°N and 15°S since 1840 but the exact burden of disease is not known.
Sande, W.W.J. (Wendy) van de
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Observation of Nocardia Asteroides Complex in a Patient with Corneal Ulceration: The First Case Report from Iran [PDF]

Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016
Background & Aims: Nocardia asteroides is gram-positive, partially acid-fast, aerobic actinomycetes which cause a wide range of skin infections, and pulmonary, cerebral, and ocular infection.
Seyedeh Zeinab Seyyed-Yousef, Mehdi Fatahi-Bafghi, Seyyed Saeed Eshraghi, Bagher Hoseini, Shadi Habibnia, Masoumeh Rasouli-Nasab, Parvin Heidarieh   +6 more
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Rare zoonosis (hemotrophic mycoplasma infection) in a newly diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus patient followed by a Nocardia asteroides pneumonia

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2010
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is per se a disease characterized by suppressed immune response and thus susceptibility to various opportunistic infections.
Dubravka Bosnic, MD, Marko Baresic, MD, Branimir Anic, MD, Mirna Sentic, MD, Mislav Cerovec, MD, Miroslav Mayer, MD, Nada Cikes, MD   +6 more
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Current diagnostic tools and management modalities of Nocardia keratitis

Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection, 2020
Nocardia species are an uncommon but important cause of keratitis. The purpose of this review is to discus previous published papers relation to the epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis and management of Nocardia keratitis.
Mohammad Soleimani, Ahmad Masoumi, Sadegh Khodavaisy, Mostafa Heidari, Ali A. Haydar, Alireza Izadi   +5 more
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Humoral response in a patient with cutaneous nocardiosis [PDF]

, 2000
The clinical appearance of infection due to Nocardia spp. varies widely. The law sensitivity of direct microscopy and the slow growth of the organism challenge the laboratory diagnosis.
Gandorfer, Arnd, Heesemann, Jürgen, Hornef, Mathias W., Roggenkamp, Andreas   +3 more
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Nocardia asteroides peritonitis during continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis Peritonite por Nocardia asteroides durante diálise peritoneal ambulatorial continuada

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1993
This paper reports a case of peritonitis by Nocardia asteroides during continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in a man who had systemic lupus erythematous and chronic renal failure.
Jorge O. Lopes, Sydney H. Alves, Jeni P. Benevenga, Adenilde Salla, Ines Tatsch   +4 more
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Disseminated Nocardia cyriacigeorgia causing pancreatitis in a haploidentical stem cell transplant recipient. [PDF]

, 2017
We report the first published case of acute pancreatitis secondary to disseminated nocardiosis in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipient on chronic immunosuppression for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
Chen, MD, Jason, Filicko-O\u27Hara, Joanne, Flomenberg, Phyllis, Kasner, Margaret, Pan, MD, Jonathan   +4 more
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Pulmonary nocardiosis presenting as fungal ball—a rare entity

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2008
Pulmonary intracavitary infection caused by Nocardia is an opportunistic infection and is believed to be a rare entity. We describe a case report of a patient with culture positive Nocardia asteroides who presented with complaints of cough and ...
Ragini Tilak,1 D. Agarwal,2 T.K. Lahiri,2 Vijai Tilak.3
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Salivary Gland Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient

Asian Journal of Surgery, 2011
We report a case of nocardiosis in an immunocompetent patient who presented with pain and multiple swellings in the face. Nocardia asteroides was isolated from the parotid and submandibular salivary glands.
Prashanth V. Shetty, Odaiyappan Kannappan, Yashdeep Sinha Sarma   +2 more
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