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Isolated Nocardiosis, an Unrecognized Primary Immunodeficiency?

Frontiers in Immunology, 2020
Nocardiosis is an infectious disease caused by the gram-positive bacterium Nocardia spp. Although it is commonly accepted that exposure to Nocardia is almost universal, only a small fraction of exposed individuals develop the disease, while the vast ...
Rubén Martínez-Barricarte, Rubén Martínez-Barricarte   +1 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Impact of immune status on the clinical characteristics, treatment outcomes and mortality of pulmonary nocardiosis: a retrospective analysis in a tertiary care hospital from a low to middle-income country

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2023
Nocardiosis is an opportunistic infection that primarily targets the immunosuppressed. We investigate the differences in demographics and characteristics between immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients with nocardiosis in a tertiary care hospital ...
Syed Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Mustansir Mehdi Khan, Yasmin Rahim, Hamza Ahmed Ibad, Muhammad Irfan   +4 more
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The global epidemiology, risk factors, and mortality prediction of nocardiosis: an easily missed opportunistic infection [PDF]

Scientific Reports
This study was to comprehensively investigate the epidemiology of nocardiosis worldwide and develop an interpretable machine learning (ML) model to predict mortality in patients with nocardiosis.
Bingqian Du, Ziyu Song, Zhiqiang Ren, Deming Tang, Jirao Shen, Jiang Yao, Xiaotong Qiu, Shuai Xu, Min Yuan, Zhiguo Liu, Zhenjun Li   +10 more
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Cerebral nocardiosis in a patient treated with pembrolizumab: a first case report

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Checkpoints inhibitors (CPIs) are increasingly used for the treatment of several malignancies. The most common side effects are Immune Related Adverse Events, while infectious complications are rare, especially cerebral nocardiosis.
Petitgas Paul, Lesouhaitier Mathieu, Boukthir Sarrah, Cattoir Vincent, Tattevin Pierre, Bénézit François   +5 more
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Investigation of Risk Factors and Development of Clinical Prediction Model for Nocardiosis in Lung Transplant Recipients [PDF]

Infection and Drug Resistance
Hengyu Zhao,1,* Zhibin Xu,1,* Xiaohua Wang,1,* Yu Xu,1 Yi Lu,1 Jiaqi Chen,1 Qiaoyu Ye,1 Xuan Li,1 Yanhua Wen,2 Chunrong Ju1 1State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease ...
Zhao H, Xu Z, Wang X, Xu Y, Lu Y, Chen J, Ye Q, Li X, Wen Y, Ju C   +9 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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Brain metastasis or nocardiosis? A case report of central nervous system Nocardiosis with a review of the literature

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2021
Nocardiosis is an infection caused by the gram-positive bacterium Nocardia, which typically manifests as an isolated pulmonary or systemic disease. Of note, Nocardia has a predilection for the central nervous system (CNS) involvement, which is more ...
Hojin Sun, Mariam Goolam Mahomed, Jaimin Patel   +2 more
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A case report of disseminated nocardiosis with ocular involvement in a myasthenia gravis patient and literature review [PDF]

BMC Neurology, 2019
Background Nocardiosis is a rare and life-threatening opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients. Myasthenia gravis (MG) patients are potentially at risk of nocardia infection because of the use of immunosuppressive agents.
Shuhui Wang, Bin Jiang, Yao Li, Yanchang Shang, Zhengshan Liu, Yongbo Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

How do I manage nocardiosis?

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2021
Ili Margalit, David Lebeaux, Jihad Bishara   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Clinical characteristics, susceptibility profiles, and treatment of nocardiosis: A multicenter retrospective study in 2015-2021.

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Jing Yang, Hong-tao Ren, Jie Wang, A. Dong, Yu-lan Chen, Di-xia Hu, Hao Wang, Hong-meng Ji, Hai-nan Wen, Ying Chen, Dong-yan Shi   +10 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources