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Pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with pemphigus foliaceus: case report and literature review

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Nocardiosis is an uncommon opportunistic infection seen in immunocompromised patients or those with a dysfunctional immune system. Nocardia asteroides infection in patients with Pemphigus foliaceus (PF) has never been reported.
Ning Luo, Shifan Tan, Xiaocai Li, Si Liu, Shivank Singh, Mafeng Chen, Weiye Yang, Yanhong He, Chunna Chen, Min Liang   +9 more
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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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Pulmonary Nocardiosis Caused by Nocardia sputorum Identified via 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing: A Case Report. [PDF]

Cureus
Irifune S, Ide S, Koga S, Mine K, Sugasaki N, Kosai K, Fukuda M, Yanagihara K, Mukae H.   +8 more
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A Case of Pulmonary Nocardiosis Presenting with Multiple Cavitary Nodules in a Patient with Thrombocytopenia

Reports, 2022
Nocardiosis is an infrequent opportunistic infection that deserves more attention because of its increasing morbidity and high rate of misdiagnosis. Clinical and radiological manifestations as well as antibiograms of pulmonary nocardiosis are diverse ...
Fei Wang, Qing Yu, Jinye Zhu, Chengli Que   +3 more
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Disseminated Nocardia cyriacigeorgia causing pancreatitis in a haploidentical stem cell transplant recipient. [PDF]

, 2017
We report the first published case of acute pancreatitis secondary to disseminated nocardiosis in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipient on chronic immunosuppression for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
Chen, MD, Jason, Filicko-O\u27Hara, Joanne, Flomenberg, Phyllis, Kasner, Margaret, Pan, MD, Jonathan   +4 more
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Coinfection by Ureaplasma spp., Photobacterium damselae and an Actinomyces-like microorganism in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) with pleuropneumonia stranded along the Adriatic coast of Italy [PDF]

, 2016
A case of pleuropneumonia is reported in an adult male bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) found stranded in 2014 along the Central Adriatic coast of Italy.
Camm\ue0, Cesare, Curini, Valentina, Di Francesco, Cristina Esmeralda, Di Francesco, Gabriella, Di Guardo, Giovanni, Di Provvido, Andrea, Ferri, Nicola, Mazzariol, Sandro, Proietto, Umberto   +8 more
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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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Incidental Finding of Nocardia: A Case Series from a Tertiary Care Centre in Uttarakhand

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2020
Nocardiosis is a rare bacterial infection that may lead to a severe disease. These infections are rare among normal population and are showing an increasing trend worldwide attributable to the increase in the immunosuppressed population.
Aroop Mohanty, Suneeta Meena, Subodh Pandey Kumar, Puneet Kumar Gupta, Neelam Kaistha, Pratima Gupta, Mithilesh Kumar Jha, Sasi Rekha   +7 more
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Nocardiosis Diseminada: Un Diagnóstico Inesperado

Galicia Clínica, 2020
Nocardiosis is a rare opportunistic infection caused by the bacteria Nocardia spp. It may presents as a localized cutaneous infection or as an invasive infection (pulmonary, central nervous system or disseminated).
Inês Zão, Paulo Torres Ramalho
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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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