Disseminated Nocardia beijingensis Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Patient With Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Case of disseminated Nocardia beijingensis, initially diagnosed and treated by health department as tuberculosis, presented with worsening symptoms and new lesions. Adjustment to antinocardial treatment resulted in significant clinical and radiographic improvement. Maintain a high index of suspicion...

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Autores principales: Bertrán-López, Jovanna, Abbott, Andrew, Archibald, Lennox K, Benninger, Lauryn, Lascano, Jorge, Kalyatanda, Gautam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7284007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32548208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa186
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author Bertrán-López, Jovanna
Abbott, Andrew
Archibald, Lennox K
Benninger, Lauryn
Lascano, Jorge
Kalyatanda, Gautam
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description Case of disseminated Nocardia beijingensis, initially diagnosed and treated by health department as tuberculosis, presented with worsening symptoms and new lesions. Adjustment to antinocardial treatment resulted in significant clinical and radiographic improvement. Maintain a high index of suspicion for Nocardia in patients diagnosed with tuberculosis with worsening lesions despite therapy.
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spelling pubmed-72840072020-06-15 Disseminated Nocardia beijingensis Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Patient With Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Bertrán-López, Jovanna Abbott, Andrew Archibald, Lennox K Benninger, Lauryn Lascano, Jorge Kalyatanda, Gautam Open Forum Infect Dis ID Teaching Cases Case of disseminated Nocardia beijingensis, initially diagnosed and treated by health department as tuberculosis, presented with worsening symptoms and new lesions. Adjustment to antinocardial treatment resulted in significant clinical and radiographic improvement. Maintain a high index of suspicion for Nocardia in patients diagnosed with tuberculosis with worsening lesions despite therapy. Oxford University Press 2020-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7284007/ /pubmed/32548208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa186 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title Disseminated Nocardia beijingensis Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Patient With Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
title_full Disseminated Nocardia beijingensis Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Patient With Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
title_fullStr Disseminated Nocardia beijingensis Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Patient With Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Nocardia beijingensis Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Patient With Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
title_short Disseminated Nocardia beijingensis Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Patient With Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
title_sort disseminated nocardia beijingensis masquerading as pulmonary tuberculosis in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome
topic ID Teaching Cases
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7284007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32548208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa186
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