A Rare Case of Drug-Resistant Nocardia transvalensis Infection in a Renal Transplant Patient

Nocardia transvalensis is a rare species of Nocardia and is known to be a drug-resistant organism. Multiple cases have been reported of Nocardia species causing opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts. To our knowledge, we report the first case of successfully treated drug-resistant Noca...

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Autores principales: Kapoor, Rajan, Adapa, Sreedhar, Vakiti, Anusha, Gani, Imran Yaseen, Mulloy, Laura, Padala, Sandeep Anand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7052443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32108507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620909243
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author Kapoor, Rajan
Adapa, Sreedhar
Vakiti, Anusha
Gani, Imran Yaseen
Mulloy, Laura
Padala, Sandeep Anand
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description Nocardia transvalensis is a rare species of Nocardia and is known to be a drug-resistant organism. Multiple cases have been reported of Nocardia species causing opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts. To our knowledge, we report the first case of successfully treated drug-resistant Nocardia transvalensis causing pulmonary nocardiosis in a renal transplant patient. Our case validates the importance of prompt identification of Nocardia species and their drug sensitivities to improve clinical outcomes and reduce mortality.
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spelling pubmed-70524432020-03-12 A Rare Case of Drug-Resistant Nocardia transvalensis Infection in a Renal Transplant Patient Kapoor, Rajan Adapa, Sreedhar Vakiti, Anusha Gani, Imran Yaseen Mulloy, Laura Padala, Sandeep Anand J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Nocardia transvalensis is a rare species of Nocardia and is known to be a drug-resistant organism. Multiple cases have been reported of Nocardia species causing opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts. To our knowledge, we report the first case of successfully treated drug-resistant Nocardia transvalensis causing pulmonary nocardiosis in a renal transplant patient. Our case validates the importance of prompt identification of Nocardia species and their drug sensitivities to improve clinical outcomes and reduce mortality. SAGE Publications 2020-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7052443/ /pubmed/32108507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620909243 Text en © 2020 American Federation for Medical Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Kapoor, Rajan
Adapa, Sreedhar
Vakiti, Anusha
Gani, Imran Yaseen
Mulloy, Laura
Padala, Sandeep Anand
A Rare Case of Drug-Resistant Nocardia transvalensis Infection in a Renal Transplant Patient
title A Rare Case of Drug-Resistant Nocardia transvalensis Infection in a Renal Transplant Patient
title_full A Rare Case of Drug-Resistant Nocardia transvalensis Infection in a Renal Transplant Patient
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Drug-Resistant Nocardia transvalensis Infection in a Renal Transplant Patient
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Drug-Resistant Nocardia transvalensis Infection in a Renal Transplant Patient
title_short A Rare Case of Drug-Resistant Nocardia transvalensis Infection in a Renal Transplant Patient
title_sort rare case of drug-resistant nocardia transvalensis infection in a renal transplant patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7052443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32108507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620909243
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