Pulmonary Nocardiosis in the Immunocompetent Host: Case Series

Pulmonary nocardiosis is commonly recognized as an opportunistic infection in patients with predisposing immunosuppressive conditions. However, reports of pulmonary nocardiosis in the immunocompetent host are rare. Here, we report a case series of four patients with pulmonary nocardiosis without a p...

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Autores principales: Singh, Inderjit, West, Frances Mae, Sanders, Abraham, Hartman, Barry, Zappetti, Dana
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/PMC4605260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26491594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/314831
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author Singh, Inderjit
West, Frances Mae
Sanders, Abraham
Hartman, Barry
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description Pulmonary nocardiosis is commonly recognized as an opportunistic infection in patients with predisposing immunosuppressive conditions. However, reports of pulmonary nocardiosis in the immunocompetent host are rare. Here, we report a case series of four patients with pulmonary nocardiosis without a predisposing condition.
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spelling pubmed-46052602015-10-21 Pulmonary Nocardiosis in the Immunocompetent Host: Case Series Singh, Inderjit West, Frances Mae Sanders, Abraham Hartman, Barry Zappetti, Dana Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report Pulmonary nocardiosis is commonly recognized as an opportunistic infection in patients with predisposing immunosuppressive conditions. However, reports of pulmonary nocardiosis in the immunocompetent host are rare. Here, we report a case series of four patients with pulmonary nocardiosis without a predisposing condition. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4605260/ /pubmed/26491594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/314831 Text en Copyright © 2015 Inderjit Singh 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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Pulmonary Nocardiosis in the Immunocompetent Host: Case Series
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title_fullStr Pulmonary Nocardiosis in the Immunocompetent Host: Case Series
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Nocardiosis in the Immunocompetent Host: Case Series
title_short Pulmonary Nocardiosis in the Immunocompetent Host: Case Series
title_sort pulmonary nocardiosis in the immunocompetent host: case series
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