Pulmonary Nocardiosis Caused by Nocardia exalbida in a Patient with Lung Cancer and Radiation Pneumonitis: A Case Report and Literature Review

We report a case of Nocardia exalbida (N. exalbida)-induced pneumonia in a 70-year old Japanese man with lung cancer and radiation pneumonitis. He initially received doripenem (1.5 g/day) for pneumonia treatment, and N. exalbida was identified by a clone library analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fl...

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Autores principales: Kato, Kaori, Noguchi, Shingo, Naito, Keisuke, Ikushima, Issei, Hanaka, Tetsuya, Yamasaki, Kei, Kawanami, Toshinori, Yatera, Kazuhiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30713323
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.2177-18

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30713323
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.2177-18

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