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Disseminated Nocardiosis in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Report of 2 Cases

Kidney Medicine, 2022
Nocardiosis is a rare, life-threatening opportunistic infection caused by bacteria in the environment that predominantly affects immunocompromised patients. Nocardiosis most commonly involves the lungs but can disseminate to other organs.
Alissar El Chediak, Jefferson L. Triozzi, Heidi Schaefer, Saed Shawar   +3 more
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<i>Nocardia</i> Infection Presented as Intramuscular Abscess in a Kidney Transplant Recipient: Case Report and Literature Review. [PDF]

Case Rep Nephrol
Background Nocardia is a gram‐positive bacterium capable of causing both local and systemic infections, typically in immunocompromised patients. The most common clinical presentation is pulmonary infection. Muscle abscess due to Nocardia infection without disseminated nocardiosis is rare.
Spangenberg G, Aftab S, Juneja R, Gordon DL, Li JYZ.   +4 more
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Clinical characteristics and treatment strategy of nocardiosis in lung transplant recipients: A single-center experience

IDCases, 2023
Objective: Nocardia are infrequent pathogens that disproportionately afflict organ transplant recipients. The present study aimed to summarize the clinical manifestations, diagnostic approaches, and treatment strategies of nocardiosis in lung transplant ...
Yu Xu, Qiao-yan Lian, Ao Chen, Jian-heng Zhang, Xin Xu, Dan-xia Huang, Jian-xing He, Chun-rong Ju   +7 more
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Mortality After Nocardiosis: Risk Factors and Evaluation of Disseminated Infection

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background Nocardia primarily infects patients who are immunocompromised or those with chronic lung disease. Although disseminated infection is widely recognized as an important prognostic factor, studies have been mixed on its impact on outcomes of ...
Zachary A. Yetmar, Ryan B. Khodadadi, Supavit Chesdachai, Jack W. McHugh, D. Challener, N. Wengenack, W. Bosch, M. T. Seville, E. Beam   +8 more
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Pleural Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Report [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Nocardiosis is a rare infection that has attracted attention with its increased rate of occurrence in the recent years. In India there is a rare documentation of the pleural involvement in nocardiosis. We report here a case of pleural nocardiosis caused
Smitha Bagali, Prakash Mantur
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Central nervous system nocardiosis diagnosed by metagenomic next-generation sequencing: A case series and literature review.

Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 2023
BACKGROUND Central nervous system (CNS) nocardiosis is a rare suppurative disease caused by the genus Nocardia. It is found most frequently in immunocompromised individuals.
Dasen Yuan, Liping Shen, Bang-E Qin, Xiaofeng Xu, Zhihui Su, Jia Liu, Han Xia, Fuhua Peng, Ying Jiang   +8 more
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Revisiting nocardiosis at a tertiary care institution: Any change in recent years?

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Objective: To analyse relevant changes in incidence, clinical and microbiological characteristics of nocardiosis over the last 24 years at the current institution.
Alicia Galar, Pablo Martín-Rabadán, Mercedes Marín, Emilia Cercenado, Carlos Sánchez-Carrillo, Maricela Valerio, Emilio Bouza, Patricia Muñoz   +7 more
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Clinical Characteristics of Nocardiosis: a Multicenter Retrospective Study in Korea

Infection & Chemotherapy, 2023
Background Nocardiosis is a rare, but potentially life-threatening condition. It is difficult to diagnose, and bacterial culture identification can be time consuming. We investigated the characteristics of nocardiosis and the suitability of the treatment
Seulki Kim, Hyejin Shi, Cheon-Hoo Jeon, Sun Bean Kim, Jongyoun Yi, Reum Kim, K. Kim, Seungjin Lim   +7 more
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Disseminated Nocardiosis in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Treated with Ibrutinib: A Case Report. [PDF]

Infect Dis Clin Microbiol
Yaqoobi H, Demiroğlu YZ, Altunay H, Habeşoğlu MA, Asgarova T, Durdağ E.   +5 more
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Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcome of Central Nervous System Nocardiosis: A Systematic Review of Reported Cases

Medical Principles and Practice, 2022
Background: The clinical spectrum of systemic nocardiosis encompasses pulmonary and disseminated disease. Central nervous system (CNS) involvement is an important feature of disseminated disease with significant mortality and high relapse rate ...
D. S. Meena, Deepak Kumar, G. Bohra, N. Midha, M. Garg   +4 more
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