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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.
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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 +10 more
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Clinical correlates of nocardiosis [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 AbstractNocardiais an opportunistic pathogen that most frequently affects the lungs. Evidence is limited regarding the risk factors for nocardiosis. The current study assessed clinical correlates of nocardiosis. A retrospective study was conducted based on medical records of consecutive adult patients (N = 60) with nocardiosis hospitalized during 2007 ...
Yael Shostak +9 more
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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 +2 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 +8 more
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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 +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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Nocardiosis and Actinomycosis [PDF]
Medicine, 2001 Nocardiosis and actinomycosis are chronic granulomatous infections caused by Gram-positive bacilli of the order Actinomycetales. These are characterized by branching filaments that can develop into mycelia. Both diseases are causes of chronic cavitary sepsis and are being seen increasingly in immunocompromised patients, in whom they can result in ...
Ruan S. Simpson, Robert C. Read
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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 +4 more
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Pulmonary Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Report [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT The patient, a 56‐year‐old female with a history of childhood bronchiectasis and controlled hypertension, presented with fever, cough, and hemoptysis. Despite initial treatment for exacerbation of bronchiectasis, her condition worsened, leading to sepsis. Blood tests revealed leukocytosis and elevated CRP.
Ibrahimi R +6 more
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