Nocardia – Opportunistic chest infection in elderly: A case report

In this rare case a non-immunocompromised patient with old Tuberculosis on low dose of steroids presents with opportunistic infection of a weakly aerobic gram positive acid fast, filamentous bacteria called Nocardia. An 80 year old non-smoking white female presented with cough, shortness of breath a...

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Autores principales: Sanyal, Kaushik, Sabanathan, Kanagasabesan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2542347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18718020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-122

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