Nocardia cyriacigeorgica threatening an immunocompetent host; a rare case of paramediastinal abscess

We describe a rare case of anterior paramediastnial abscess due to Nocardia cyriacigeorgica in an immunocompetent patient without pre-existing lung disease. High suspicious should be taken in those patients that failed to improve after first course of antibiotic therapy. Similarly, when suspected, i...

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Autores principales: Rivera, Kelvin, Maldonado, Jeffrey, Dones, Aixa, Betancourt, María, Fernández, Ricardo, Colón, Miguel
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omx061
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author Rivera, Kelvin
Maldonado, Jeffrey
Dones, Aixa
Betancourt, María
Fernández, Ricardo
Colón, Miguel
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Maldonado, Jeffrey
Dones, Aixa
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Fernández, Ricardo
Colón, Miguel
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description We describe a rare case of anterior paramediastnial abscess due to Nocardia cyriacigeorgica in an immunocompetent patient without pre-existing lung disease. High suspicious should be taken in those patients that failed to improve after first course of antibiotic therapy. Similarly, when suspected, isolation is crucial because of the variation in antibiotic susceptibilities among Nocardia spp. in order to provide adequate therapy to reduce associated comorbidities and mortality rate.
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spelling pubmed-57264592017-12-18 Nocardia cyriacigeorgica threatening an immunocompetent host; a rare case of paramediastinal abscess Rivera, Kelvin Maldonado, Jeffrey Dones, Aixa Betancourt, María Fernández, Ricardo Colón, Miguel Oxf Med Case Reports Case Report We describe a rare case of anterior paramediastnial abscess due to Nocardia cyriacigeorgica in an immunocompetent patient without pre-existing lung disease. High suspicious should be taken in those patients that failed to improve after first course of antibiotic therapy. Similarly, when suspected, isolation is crucial because of the variation in antibiotic susceptibilities among Nocardia spp. in order to provide adequate therapy to reduce associated comorbidities and mortality rate. Oxford University Press 2017-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5726459/ /pubmed/29255613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omx061 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Rivera, Kelvin
Maldonado, Jeffrey
Dones, Aixa
Betancourt, María
Fernández, Ricardo
Colón, Miguel
Nocardia cyriacigeorgica threatening an immunocompetent host; a rare case of paramediastinal abscess
title Nocardia cyriacigeorgica threatening an immunocompetent host; a rare case of paramediastinal abscess
title_full Nocardia cyriacigeorgica threatening an immunocompetent host; a rare case of paramediastinal abscess
title_fullStr Nocardia cyriacigeorgica threatening an immunocompetent host; a rare case of paramediastinal abscess
title_full_unstemmed Nocardia cyriacigeorgica threatening an immunocompetent host; a rare case of paramediastinal abscess
title_short Nocardia cyriacigeorgica threatening an immunocompetent host; a rare case of paramediastinal abscess
title_sort nocardia cyriacigeorgica threatening an immunocompetent host; a rare case of paramediastinal abscess
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omx061
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