A clinical case report of brain abscess caused by Nocardia brasiliensis in a non-immunocompromised patient and a relevant literature review

BACKGROUND: Brain abscess due to the Nocardia genus is rare and usually found in immunocompromised patients. The most common subtype implicated is Nocardia farcinica while brain abscess due to Nocardia brasiliensis is comparatively rare. Diagnosis of brain abscess is based mainly on bacteriological...

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Autores principales: Zhu, Jian-Wei, Zhou, Hui, Jia, Wei-Qiang, You, Jian, Xu, Ru-Xiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7206790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32381049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05052-0

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