A case of pulmonary nocardiosis with Nocardia brasiliensis spread from a post‐traumatic cutaneous infection in an immunocompetent patient [PDF]
Respirology Case Reports, 2023 Nocardia is an aerobic Gram‐positive bacterium found in the environment, including soil and water. Nocardia brasiliensis is reportedly associated with cutaneous infections, and disseminated disease is typically detected in immunocompromised individuals ...
Masaaki Iwabayashi +2 more
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Septic arthritis due to Nocardia brasiliensis and a review of nocardiosis as a cause of arthritis [PDF]
IDCases, 2022 Bacteria of the genus Nocardia are implicated in several disease processes but are a rare cause of septic arthritis. Typically, the cause of Nocardia septic arthritis is dissemination from a pulmonary infection in an immunocompromised host.
Divya Chandramohan +2 more
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Sporotrichoid Skin Infection Caused by Nocardia brasiliensis in a Kidney Transplant Patient [PDF]
Diseases, 2018 Prompt and accurate diagnosis of Nocardia skin infections is important in immunocompromised hosts, especially transplant patients. The sporotrichoid form, which is otherwise known as the lymphocutaneous form of Nocardia skin involvement, can mimic other ...
Folusakin Ayoade +3 more
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Retroperitoneal granuloma in a cat caused by Nocardia brasiliensis resulting in bilateral ureteral entrapment and unilateral hydronephrosis. [PDF]
Aust Vet JNocardia infections in cats most commonly present as subcutaneous wounds, or less commonly, as pneumonia, purulent pleurisy and disseminated disease. Abdominal involvement is rarely reported, and to date, localised retroperitoneal infection has only been reported in people. This report describes a five‐year‐old domestic shorthair cat living in Canberra,
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Nocardia brasiliensis Infection Complicating Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia [PDF]
Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2017 Pulmonary nocardiosis is a severe and uncommon opportunistic infection caused by Nocardia species. We present a patient with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia who was receiving long-term immunosuppressive therapy, whose treatment course was complicated by
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In Vivo Activity of the Benzothiazinones PBTZ169 and BTZ043 against Nocardia brasiliensis. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 BACKGROUND:Mycetoma is a neglected, chronic, and deforming infectious disease caused by fungi and actinomycetes. In Mexico, N. brasiliensis is the predominant etiologic agent.
Norma Alejandra González-Martínez +9 more
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A clinical case report of brain abscess caused by Nocardia brasiliensis in a non-immunocompromised patient and a relevant literature review [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020 Background Brain abscess due to the Nocardia genus is rare and usually found in immunocompromised patients. The most common subtype implicated is Nocardia farcinica while brain abscess due to Nocardia brasiliensis is comparatively rare.
Jian-Wei Zhu +4 more
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Screening and Identification of B-Cell Epitopes in the P61 Protein of Nocardia brasiliensis [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2018 The P61 protein is an immunodominant antigen of Nocardia brasiliensis that is observed in the sera from patients infected with the bacterium. However, the B-cell epitopes of N. brasiliensis are still unresolved.
Xingzhao Ji +10 more
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Nocardia brasiliensis in diabetic foot abscess: A rare case report [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary CareNocardia species are saprophytic bacteria, present in soil and water, usually associated with pulmonary infection and occasionally with abscesses in other body sites in immunocompromised patients and immunocompetent individuals.
Priyanka Singh +2 more
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Nocardia brasiliensis: mycetoma induction and growth cycle [PDF]
Infection and Immunity, 1982 The capacity of Nocardia brasiliensis to induce mycetoma in BALB/c mice in the absence of adjuvants was studied. Whether the virulence of N. brasiliensis varied in the different phases of its growth cycle was also determined. The results showed that N.
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