An Unusual Case of Pulmonary Nocardiosis in Immunocompetent Patient

Pulmonary nocardiosis is a subacute or chronic necrotizing pneumonia caused by aerobic actinomycetes of the genus Nocardia and rare in immune-competent patients. A 35-year-old male, who had treated with antituberculosis drugs, presented with cough, dyspnea, and expectoration with episodes of hemopty...

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Autores principales: Yaşar, Zehra, Acat, Murat, Onaran, Hilal, Özgül, Mehmet Akif, Fener, Neslihan, Talay, Fahrettin, Çetinkaya, Erdoğan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25506020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/963482
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Sumario:Pulmonary nocardiosis is a subacute or chronic necrotizing pneumonia caused by aerobic actinomycetes of the genus Nocardia and rare in immune-competent patients. A 35-year-old male, who had treated with antituberculosis drugs, presented with cough, dyspnea, and expectoration with episodes of hemoptysis with purulent sputum. The diagnosis of nocardiosis was made by microscopic examination of the surgically resected portion of the lung and revealed filamentous Gram-positive bacteria.

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