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Nocardiosis at a London teaching hospital: Be aware and beware of what is rare [PDF]

, 2019
Aims To review all laboratory-confirmed cases of nocardiosis at a tertiary referral hospital over an extended period (2000–2018; 216 months) with regard to microbiological and epidemiological characteristics, risk factors, clinical management, morbidity
Ambrosioni, Antibiotic Expert Groups, Beaman, Beaman, Borm, Brown-Elliott, Choucino, Ercibengoa Arana, Haussaire, Houang, Kontoyiannis, Lebeaux, Lerner, Mahendra, Martinez, Martinez Tomas, Marín, McNeil, Minero, Mootsikapun, Peleg, Provost, Tatti, Wilson, Young   +24 more
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Post renal transplant pulmonary nocardiosis - A case report

Journal of Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences, 2019
Nocardiosis is a rare opportunistic infection caused by an aerobic actinomycete, producing either local or disseminated disease. It is a systemic infection that usually begins in the lungs and has high predilection for brain, skin and subcutaneous ...
Akhil Purushothaman Rajeswari, Gullipalli Prasad, Ramesh Chandra Vyasam, Bura Naga Raja Ramesh, Gunnam Sireesha, Athota Sam, Revu Praveen, Kondari Sai Sundeep, Kanala Sai Harisha   +8 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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Infections Complicating Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: A Study Emphasizing Graft-Related Septicemia [PDF]

, 1976
In 93 recipients of 102 orthotopic liver homografts, the incidence of bacteremia or fungemia exceeded 70%. The graft itself was usually an entry site for systemic infection after both immunologic and nonimmunologic parenchymal injury, especially if there
Hansbrough, JF, Hoelscher, M, Porter, KA, Putnam, CW, Schröter, GPJ, Starzl, TE   +5 more
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Endobronchial Nocardiosis associated with Broncholithiasis

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016
Pulmonary nocardiosis is a rare respiratory infection which commonly affects immunocompromised patients but also in immunocompetent hosts. The clinical manifestation is variable and endobronchial nocardiosis is a very rare condition.
W.O. Tam, C.F. Wong, P.C. Wong
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Nocardia brasiliensis Infection Complicating Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia

Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2017
Pulmonary nocardiosis is a severe and uncommon opportunistic infection caused by Nocardia species. We present a patient with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia who was receiving long-term immunosuppressive therapy, whose treatment course was complicated by
Alison M. Fernandes, Jason C. Sluzevich, Isabel Mira-Avendano   +2 more
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Primary cutaneous nocardiosis

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2012
A 35-year-old male presented with multiple discharging sinuses and fluctuant swelling on right side of face which started after a vehicular accident three year back. The lesions did not respond to routine antibiotics treatment but went on increasing. Gram smear showed typical acid fast branching filaments suggestive of nocardiosis, which was confirmed ...
Vikrant A Saoji, Sandhya V Saoji, Rutuja W Gadegone, Priyanka R Menghani   +3 more
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Lymphocutaneous nocardiosis in a kidney transplant patient successfully treated with tigecycline

Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2018
Cutaneous nocardiosis is an infrequent infection which has been increasingly reported in immunocompromised patients. Although trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole is considered to be the agent of choice for treatment of nocardiosis, newer antimicrobials such as
Eleni Mylona, Vasilios Papastamopoulos, Myrto Giannopoulou, Efstathia Perivolioti, Zoi Psaroudaki, Athanasios Skoutelis   +5 more
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Nocardiosis at an organ transplant center in Saudi Arabia: 15 years' experience

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background: No cardiosis is a rare infection that affects immunocompromised patients on immunosuppressive medications used for transplantation and cancer therapy. Such therapies are becoming more widely available in the Middle East region.
Ihab Weheba, Abeer Abdelsayed, Abdulrahman A Alrajhi, Sahar I Al-Thawadi, Abdullah Mobeireek   +4 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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