A Man with Unilateral Endophthalmitis: A Case of Disseminated Nocardiosis

We present the case of a patient with an infection by Nocardia which manifested itself with monocular endophthalmitis. Nocardia infection is not common and ocular involvement is one of the most uncommon presentations. In these cases it is very important to make an early diagnosis and intensive treat...

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Autores principales: Navarrete-Navarrete, N., Escobar Sevilla, J., Toribio García, M., Urbano, F., Sabio, J. M., Jiménez-Alonso, J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4386696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25878910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/607421
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author Navarrete-Navarrete, N.
Escobar Sevilla, J.
Toribio García, M.
Urbano, F.
Sabio, J. M.
Jiménez-Alonso, J.
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description We present the case of a patient with an infection by Nocardia which manifested itself with monocular endophthalmitis. Nocardia infection is not common and ocular involvement is one of the most uncommon presentations. In these cases it is very important to make an early diagnosis and intensive treatment to prevent the visual prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-43866962015-04-15 A Man with Unilateral Endophthalmitis: A Case of Disseminated Nocardiosis Navarrete-Navarrete, N. Escobar Sevilla, J. Toribio García, M. Urbano, F. Sabio, J. M. Jiménez-Alonso, J. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report We present the case of a patient with an infection by Nocardia which manifested itself with monocular endophthalmitis. Nocardia infection is not common and ocular involvement is one of the most uncommon presentations. In these cases it is very important to make an early diagnosis and intensive treatment to prevent the visual prognosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4386696/ /pubmed/25878910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/607421 Text en Copyright © 2015 N. Navarrete-Navarrete et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Navarrete-Navarrete, N.
Escobar Sevilla, J.
Toribio García, M.
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Sabio, J. M.
Jiménez-Alonso, J.
A Man with Unilateral Endophthalmitis: A Case of Disseminated Nocardiosis
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title_fullStr A Man with Unilateral Endophthalmitis: A Case of Disseminated Nocardiosis
title_full_unstemmed A Man with Unilateral Endophthalmitis: A Case of Disseminated Nocardiosis
title_short A Man with Unilateral Endophthalmitis: A Case of Disseminated Nocardiosis
title_sort man with unilateral endophthalmitis: a case of disseminated nocardiosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4386696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25878910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/607421
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