Disseminated infection with Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in a patient under steroid therapy

Corticosteroid recipients with lung infections should be suspected of having nocardiosis; however, nocardiosis can easily mimic malignancy, tuberculosis, or fungal infection. Though cultural identification is possible, it might be missed due to its slow growth pattern.. Therefore, if filamentous bac...

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Autores principales: Sah, Ranjit, Khadka, Shusila, Neupane, Samikshya, Nepal, Gaurav, Singla, Sonam, Kumari, Pankhuri, Sah, Sanjit, Sah, Ranjana, Sah, Shyam Sundar, Adhikari, Mahesh, Shah, Niranjan Prasad, Pokharel, Bharat Mani, Rijal, Basista, Shah, Dibya Singh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7044388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32128191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2640
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author Sah, Ranjit
Khadka, Shusila
Neupane, Samikshya
Nepal, Gaurav
Singla, Sonam
Kumari, Pankhuri
Sah, Sanjit
Sah, Ranjana
Sah, Shyam Sundar
Adhikari, Mahesh
Shah, Niranjan Prasad
Pokharel, Bharat Mani
Rijal, Basista
Shah, Dibya Singh
author_facet Sah, Ranjit
Khadka, Shusila
Neupane, Samikshya
Nepal, Gaurav
Singla, Sonam
Kumari, Pankhuri
Sah, Sanjit
Sah, Ranjana
Sah, Shyam Sundar
Adhikari, Mahesh
Shah, Niranjan Prasad
Pokharel, Bharat Mani
Rijal, Basista
Shah, Dibya Singh
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description Corticosteroid recipients with lung infections should be suspected of having nocardiosis; however, nocardiosis can easily mimic malignancy, tuberculosis, or fungal infection. Though cultural identification is possible, it might be missed due to its slow growth pattern.. Therefore, if filamentous bacteria are seen during staining, plate incubation time should be extended.
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spelling pubmed-70443882020-03-03 Disseminated infection with Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in a patient under steroid therapy Sah, Ranjit Khadka, Shusila Neupane, Samikshya Nepal, Gaurav Singla, Sonam Kumari, Pankhuri Sah, Sanjit Sah, Ranjana Sah, Shyam Sundar Adhikari, Mahesh Shah, Niranjan Prasad Pokharel, Bharat Mani Rijal, Basista Shah, Dibya Singh Clin Case Rep Case Reports Corticosteroid recipients with lung infections should be suspected of having nocardiosis; however, nocardiosis can easily mimic malignancy, tuberculosis, or fungal infection. Though cultural identification is possible, it might be missed due to its slow growth pattern.. Therefore, if filamentous bacteria are seen during staining, plate incubation time should be extended. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7044388/ /pubmed/32128191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2640 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Reports
Sah, Ranjit
Khadka, Shusila
Neupane, Samikshya
Nepal, Gaurav
Singla, Sonam
Kumari, Pankhuri
Sah, Sanjit
Sah, Ranjana
Sah, Shyam Sundar
Adhikari, Mahesh
Shah, Niranjan Prasad
Pokharel, Bharat Mani
Rijal, Basista
Shah, Dibya Singh
Disseminated infection with Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in a patient under steroid therapy
title Disseminated infection with Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in a patient under steroid therapy
title_full Disseminated infection with Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in a patient under steroid therapy
title_fullStr Disseminated infection with Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in a patient under steroid therapy
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated infection with Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in a patient under steroid therapy
title_short Disseminated infection with Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in a patient under steroid therapy
title_sort disseminated infection with nocardia otitidiscaviarum in a patient under steroid therapy
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7044388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32128191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2640
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