Asymptomatic cerebral abscesses after pleuropulmonary Nocardia farcinica infection

We report the case of a 68-year-old man with long-term receipt of steroid therapy who was diagnosed with cerebral abscesses and pulmonary nocardiosis. This patient displayed only respiratory symptoms. Confirmation of Nocardia farcinica species was achieved by specific PCR sequencing of the 16S ribos...

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Autores principales: Zayet, S., Lang, S., Ben Abdallah, Y., Klopfenstein, T., Gendrin, V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7704421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33299565
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100808
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Gendrin, V.
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description We report the case of a 68-year-old man with long-term receipt of steroid therapy who was diagnosed with cerebral abscesses and pulmonary nocardiosis. This patient displayed only respiratory symptoms. Confirmation of Nocardia farcinica species was achieved by specific PCR sequencing of the 16S ribosome RNA in bronchoalveolar lavage cultures. Cerebral magnetic resonance imaging revealed abscesses. Antibiotic therapy with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole was prescribed given the results of susceptibility tests and was maintained for 12 months, with no evidence of relapse afterwards.
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spelling pubmed-77044212020-12-08 Asymptomatic cerebral abscesses after pleuropulmonary Nocardia farcinica infection Zayet, S. Lang, S. Ben Abdallah, Y. Klopfenstein, T. Gendrin, V. New Microbes New Infect Letter to the Editor We report the case of a 68-year-old man with long-term receipt of steroid therapy who was diagnosed with cerebral abscesses and pulmonary nocardiosis. This patient displayed only respiratory symptoms. Confirmation of Nocardia farcinica species was achieved by specific PCR sequencing of the 16S ribosome RNA in bronchoalveolar lavage cultures. Cerebral magnetic resonance imaging revealed abscesses. Antibiotic therapy with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole was prescribed given the results of susceptibility tests and was maintained for 12 months, with no evidence of relapse afterwards. Elsevier 2020-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7704421/ /pubmed/33299565 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100808 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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