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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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Nontuberculous mycobacterial and Nocardia infections mimicking pulmonary tuberculosis: a retrospective study of a general hospital patient population in China.

Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2020
PURPOSE In this study, we differentiated between tuberculosis (TB) and infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) or Nocardia in a tertiary general hospital in China.
Guowei Dong, P. Chu, Jie Guo, Yuduan Xie, Jie Lu   +4 more
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Nocardia asteroides and Nocardia brasiliensis infections in mice [PDF]

Infection and Immunity, 1976
A model for Nocardia asteroides and Nocardia brasiliensis infections in Swiss white mice has been established without the addition to the inocula of any form of adjuvant. Serial histopathological studies revealed that these two actinomycetes cause lesions that are quite different in their features. An acute suppurative abscess characterizes the lesions
P I, Folb, R, Jaffe, G, Altmann
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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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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, Sreedhar Adapa MD, Anusha Vakiti MD, Imran Yaseen Gani MD, Laura Mulloy DO, Sandeep Anand Padala MD   +5 more
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Infection with <i>Nocardia pneumoniae</i> in a 54-year-old woman with bronchiectasis - a case report and review of the literature. [PDF]

Respir Med Case Rep
Endres A, Pilot M, Hogardt M, Westeppe S, Zirn B, Rohde G.   +5 more
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Disseminated Nocardia farcinica infection presenting as a paravertebral abscess in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2019
Disseminated Nocardia infections occur particularly in immunosuppressed hosts and are most often due to Nocardia farcinica, Nocardia nova, and Nocardia cyriacigeorgica. Here, we report an unusual case of disseminated N.
Yeliz Özen, Basak Dokuzoguz, Ipek Mumcuoglu, Aysel Kocagül Çelikbas, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Bahadir Orkun Özbay   +5 more
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Genotypic and phenotypic prevalence of Nocardia species in Iran: First systematic review and meta-analysis of data accumulated over years 1992-2021.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundNocardia species belong to the aerobic actinomycetes group of bacteria which are gram-positive and partially acid-fast Bacilli. These bacteria may sometimes be associated with nosocomial infections.
Mohammad Hashemzadeh, Aram Asareh Zadegan Dezfuli, Azar Dokht Khosravi, Mohammad Savari, Fatemeh Jahangirimehr   +4 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, Georgette Fatoul, Emilio Guirao-Arrabal, Alejandro Peña, Javier Rodríguez-Granger, Fernando Cobo   +5 more
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Central Nervous System Nocardiosis Due to Nocardia farcinica

Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases, 2023
Nocardia is an opportunistic aerobic, filamentous, gram-positive branching rod that infects immunocompromised hosts. Infections usually stem from the pulmonary, integumentary, or, rarely, gastrointestinal systems.
Kate Zha, Michelle Bahrain, Jasvinder Singh, Jeffrey Iding, Teresa Wojtasiewicz, Christopher J. Haas   +5 more
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