Nocardia paucivorans brain abscess. Clinical and microbiological characteristics

Nocardia paucivorans brain abscesses are unusual in humans. Sixteen cases of this infection have been reported in the world medical literature. There is precise clinical information available from nine patients. All of these patients recovered or were cured from their brain disease with long-term an...

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Autores principales: Aliaga, Luis, Fatoul, Georgette, Guirao-Arrabal, Emilio, Peña, Alejandro, Rodríguez-Granger, Javier, Cobo, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6077179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30101067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00422
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author Aliaga, Luis
Fatoul, Georgette
Guirao-Arrabal, Emilio
Peña, Alejandro
Rodríguez-Granger, Javier
Cobo, Fernando
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description Nocardia paucivorans brain abscesses are unusual in humans. Sixteen cases of this infection have been reported in the world medical literature. There is precise clinical information available from nine patients. All of these patients recovered or were cured from their brain disease with long-term antimicrobial treatment. Surgical drainage was performed in four patients.
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spelling pubmed-60771792018-08-10 Nocardia paucivorans brain abscess. Clinical and microbiological characteristics Aliaga, Luis Fatoul, Georgette Guirao-Arrabal, Emilio Peña, Alejandro Rodríguez-Granger, Javier Cobo, Fernando IDCases Case Study Nocardia paucivorans brain abscesses are unusual in humans. Sixteen cases of this infection have been reported in the world medical literature. There is precise clinical information available from nine patients. All of these patients recovered or were cured from their brain disease with long-term antimicrobial treatment. Surgical drainage was performed in four patients. Elsevier 2018-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6077179/ /pubmed/30101067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00422 Text en © 2018 The Authors https://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/PMC6077179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30101067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00422
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