Nocardia beijingensis brain abscesses in an HIV-infected individual

We describe a case of a 50-year-old Hispanic man diagnosed with HIV/AIDS who presented with a generalized tonic clonic seizure and ring enhancing cerebral lesions on imaging. He was initially treated for CNS toxoplasmosis but presented to the hospital with another tonic clonic seizure despite prescr...

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Autores principales: Keenan, Jolie Guevara, Mohapatra, Sunita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5499028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28706854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.03.006
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description We describe a case of a 50-year-old Hispanic man diagnosed with HIV/AIDS who presented with a generalized tonic clonic seizure and ring enhancing cerebral lesions on imaging. He was initially treated for CNS toxoplasmosis but presented to the hospital with another tonic clonic seizure despite prescribed therapy. Brain biopsy was performed which revealed Nocardia beijingensis. He was treated with intravenous meropenem and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole for six weeks followed by long term oral trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole with radiographic and clinical improvement.
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spelling pubmed-54990282017-07-13 Nocardia beijingensis brain abscesses in an HIV-infected individual Keenan, Jolie Guevara Mohapatra, Sunita IDCases Case Report We describe a case of a 50-year-old Hispanic man diagnosed with HIV/AIDS who presented with a generalized tonic clonic seizure and ring enhancing cerebral lesions on imaging. He was initially treated for CNS toxoplasmosis but presented to the hospital with another tonic clonic seizure despite prescribed therapy. Brain biopsy was performed which revealed Nocardia beijingensis. He was treated with intravenous meropenem and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole for six weeks followed by long term oral trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole with radiographic and clinical improvement. Elsevier 2017-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5499028/ /pubmed/28706854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.03.006 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5499028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28706854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.03.006
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