Nocardia brasiliensis Infection Complicating Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia

Pulmonary nocardiosis is a severe and uncommon opportunistic infection caused by Nocardia species. We present a patient with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia who was receiving long-term immunosuppressive therapy, whose treatment course was complicated by cutaneous and pulmonary nocardiosis. Tissue c...

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Autores principales: Fernandes, Alison M., Sluzevich, Jason C., Mira-Avendano, Isabel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5350350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28348912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9567175
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author Fernandes, Alison M.
Sluzevich, Jason C.
Mira-Avendano, Isabel
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description Pulmonary nocardiosis is a severe and uncommon opportunistic infection caused by Nocardia species. We present a patient with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia who was receiving long-term immunosuppressive therapy, whose treatment course was complicated by cutaneous and pulmonary nocardiosis. Tissue cultures confirmed Nocardia brasiliensis. Nocardiosis should be a diagnostic consideration for patients treated with long-term immunosuppression who have worsening pulmonary symptoms and relapsing pustular skin lesions.
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spelling pubmed-53503502017-03-27 Nocardia brasiliensis Infection Complicating Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Fernandes, Alison M. Sluzevich, Jason C. Mira-Avendano, Isabel Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report Pulmonary nocardiosis is a severe and uncommon opportunistic infection caused by Nocardia species. We present a patient with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia who was receiving long-term immunosuppressive therapy, whose treatment course was complicated by cutaneous and pulmonary nocardiosis. Tissue cultures confirmed Nocardia brasiliensis. Nocardiosis should be a diagnostic consideration for patients treated with long-term immunosuppression who have worsening pulmonary symptoms and relapsing pustular skin lesions. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 2017-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5350350/ /pubmed/28348912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9567175 Text en Copyright © 2017 Alison M. Fernandes et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Nocardia brasiliensis Infection Complicating Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
title Nocardia brasiliensis Infection Complicating Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
title_full Nocardia brasiliensis Infection Complicating Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
title_fullStr Nocardia brasiliensis Infection Complicating Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
title_full_unstemmed Nocardia brasiliensis Infection Complicating Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
title_short Nocardia brasiliensis Infection Complicating Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
title_sort nocardia brasiliensis infection complicating cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5350350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28348912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9567175
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