Challenges in treatment of disseminated nocardiosis in an elderly patient with renal failure on corticosteroids: a case report

We report the case of a 71-year-old Japanese man with a history of chronic kidney disease and sarcoidosis receiving chronic corticosteroids who presented with disseminated Nocardia brasiliensis infection. He initially showed improvement with empiric antimicrobial therapy including trimethoprim-sulfa...

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Autores principales: Nagasaki, Kazuya, Gomi, Harumi, Ishioka, Haruhiko, Taguchi, Shijima, Takayashiki, Norio, Kobayashi, Hiroyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32373466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00755

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32373466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00755

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