Cutaneous Nocardia arthritidis infection in an orthotopic liver transplant recipient

Nocardiosis is a potentially life-threatening infection that affects both immunocompetent and immunosuppressed hosts. We discuss a case of an elderly gentleman with history of orthotopic liver transplantation who presented with cellulitis of his left forearm. When he did not respond to the typical a...

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Autores principales: Cheronis, Nicholas, Carr, Dustin, Bhanot, Nitin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6717057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31485413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00623
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description Nocardiosis is a potentially life-threatening infection that affects both immunocompetent and immunosuppressed hosts. We discuss a case of an elderly gentleman with history of orthotopic liver transplantation who presented with cellulitis of his left forearm. When he did not respond to the typical antibiotic coverage for bacterial cellulitis, skin biopsy was performed. N. arthritidis was identified as the pathogen, a relatively newly identified human pathogen first described to cause human disease in 2004.
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spelling pubmed-67170572019-09-04 Cutaneous Nocardia arthritidis infection in an orthotopic liver transplant recipient Cheronis, Nicholas Carr, Dustin Bhanot, Nitin IDCases Article Nocardiosis is a potentially life-threatening infection that affects both immunocompetent and immunosuppressed hosts. We discuss a case of an elderly gentleman with history of orthotopic liver transplantation who presented with cellulitis of his left forearm. When he did not respond to the typical antibiotic coverage for bacterial cellulitis, skin biopsy was performed. N. arthritidis was identified as the pathogen, a relatively newly identified human pathogen first described to cause human disease in 2004. Elsevier 2019-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6717057/ /pubmed/31485413 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00623 Text en © 2019 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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title Cutaneous Nocardia arthritidis infection in an orthotopic liver transplant recipient
title_full Cutaneous Nocardia arthritidis infection in an orthotopic liver transplant recipient
title_fullStr Cutaneous Nocardia arthritidis infection in an orthotopic liver transplant recipient
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous Nocardia arthritidis infection in an orthotopic liver transplant recipient
title_short Cutaneous Nocardia arthritidis infection in an orthotopic liver transplant recipient
title_sort cutaneous nocardia arthritidis infection in an orthotopic liver transplant recipient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6717057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31485413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00623
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