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Nocardia infection causing non-healing surgical wounds: A case series from Bangladesh

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Objective: Nocardia can be introduced accidentally causing non-healing surgical wounds. Method: From February 2017 to January 2021 samples from wounds were collected.
Afzalunnessa Binte Lutfor, Samira Afroz, Asif Mujtaba Mahmud, Tasmiah Selim, Taskina Akhter, Tamanna Sultana, Sadia Taskeen   +6 more
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A Case of Infection with Nocardia [PDF]

The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1913
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Steele, Albert E., Lee, Roger I.
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Disseminated Nocardia infection—A rare presentation [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, 2021
AbstractNocardia infection is rare and requires early diagnosis, extended use of sulfonamides for good prognosis, and prevention of recurrence. It is crucial to suspect nocardiosis in cases of atypical pneumonias or unexplained visceral organ dysfunction.
Harkesh Arora, Sathishkumar Ramalingam, Rajvee Sanghavi, Adedayo Balogun, Maheshwari Muruganandam   +4 more
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An Unusual Presentation From a Sporadic Partially Acid-Fast Aerobic Actinomycete Resistant to Common Antibiotics

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2020
Nocardia causes rare opportunistic infections, that can be challenging to diagnose because of atypical features on conventional microbiological identification techniques.
Sreedhar Adapa MD, Srikanth Naramala MD, Vijay Gayam MD, Rajan Kapoor MD, Mina Raju DO, Pallav Patel MD, Venu Madhav Konala MD   +6 more
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Molecular identification of nocardia isolates from clinical samples and an overview of human nocardiosis in Brazil. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
BackgroundNocardia sp. causes a variety of clinical presentations. The incidence of nocardiosis varies geographically according to several factors, such as the prevalence of HIV infections, transplants, neoplastic and rheumatic diseases, as well as ...
Paulo Victor Pereira Baio, Juliana Nunes Ramos, Louisy Sanches dos Santos, Morgana Fonseca Soriano, Elisa Martins Ladeira, Mônica Cristina Souza, Thereza Cristina Ferreira Camello, Marcio Garcia Ribeiro, Raphael Hirata Junior, Verônica Viana Vieira, Ana Luíza Mattos-Guaraldi   +10 more
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Multiple brain abscesses caused by Nocardia asiatica: Case report and literature review

IDCases, 2023
Nocardia are opportunistic pathogens mainly affecting immunocompromised individuals. Nocardia asiatica, a novel species, can cause severe infections. We present a case of multiple brain abscesses due to Nocardia asiatica, discussing its diagnosis and ...
Shanmu Jin, Xiaopeng Guo, Hao Xing, Dingding Li, Yu Wang, Wenbin Ma   +5 more
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Nocardia asteroides ocular infection [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2014
Methods The ocular samples viz., corneal swab, corneal scraping, aqueous tap and vitreous tap were processed for culture and the isolated Nocardia species were further confirmed for speciation by standard microbiological procedures. Antibiotic susceptibility analysis for the confirmed isolates of N.
Yendrembam Randhir Babu Singh, Kanesan Panneer Selvam, Coimbatore Subramanian Shobana, Palanisamy Manikandan, Haridas Sreekumar, Prithiviraj Aiswariya, Perumal Gomathi   +6 more
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Metagenomic next-generation sequencing provides prognostic warning by identifying mixed infections in nocardiosis

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
Nocardia is an opportunistic pathogen that mainly involves immunosuppressed patients and causes a high mortality rate. As an emerging approach to detect infectious pathogens, metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) was reported in the detection of ...
Mengfan Jiao, Mengfan Jiao, Xiaoxu Ma, Yaoguang Li, Yaoguang Li, Huifen Wang, Huifen Wang, Ying Liu, Ying Liu, Wenhu Guo, Jun Lv   +10 more
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Isolation of keratinophilic fungi and aerobic actinomycetes from park soils in Gorgan, North of Iran [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Keratinophilic fungi are a group of fungi that colonize in various keratinous substrates and degrade them to the components with low molecular weight.
Abbasi Nejat, Z., Amini, A., Hanaf, P., Kohsar, F., Malek, E., Mohammadi, R., Moosazadeh, M., Niknejad, F.   +7 more
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Nocardia kroppenstedtii sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from a lung transplant patient with a pulmonary infection [PDF]

, 2014
An actinomycete, strain N1286T, isolated from a lung transplant patient with a pulmonary infection, was provisionally assigned to the genus Nocardia. The strain had chemotaxonomic and morphological properties typical of members of the genus Nocardia and ...
Amanda L. Jones, Andrew. J. Fisher, Andrews, Brown-Elliott, Collins, Eoin P. Judge, Everest, Felsenstein, Felsenstein, Gonzalez, Goodfellow, Goodfellow, Goodfellow, Gordon, Hasegawa, Isik, Jannat-Khah, John D. Perry, Jukes, Kate Gould, Kim, Kimberley Boagey, Kluge, Kroppenstedt, Kämpfer, Lechevalier, Margaret M. Hannan, Michael Goodfellow, Minnikin, Minnikin, Moser, Rahul Mahida, Ros Brown, Saitou, Sazak, Staneck, Sutcliffe, Tamura, Uchida   +38 more
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