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"Primary" nocardial brain abscess in a renal transplant patient

BACKGROUND: Intracranial abscesses are rare among transplant recipients, and Nocardia is responsible for less than 2 % of them. Nocardiosis, a chronic infection and is difficult to treat. Primary infection involves lungs and eventually disseminates. Primary nocardial abscesses are rare and we report...

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Autores principales: Weerakkody, Ranga Migara, Palangasinghe, Dhammika Randula, Wadanambi, Saman, Wijewikrama, Eranga Sanjeewa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26597790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1697-4