Pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with pemphigus foliaceus: case report and literature review

BACKGROUND: Nocardiosis is an uncommon opportunistic infection seen in immunocompromised patients or those with a dysfunctional immune system. Nocardia asteroides infection in patients with Pemphigus foliaceus (PF) has never been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an interesting case of nocardio...

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Autores principales: Luo, Ning, Tan, Shifan, Li, Xiaocai, Liu, Si, Singh, Shivank, Chen, Mafeng, Yang, Weiye, He, Yanhong, Chen, Chunna, Liang, Min
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7788831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33407179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05673-5
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author Luo, Ning
Tan, Shifan
Li, Xiaocai
Liu, Si
Singh, Shivank
Chen, Mafeng
Yang, Weiye
He, Yanhong
Chen, Chunna
Liang, Min
author_facet Luo, Ning
Tan, Shifan
Li, Xiaocai
Liu, Si
Singh, Shivank
Chen, Mafeng
Yang, Weiye
He, Yanhong
Chen, Chunna
Liang, Min
author_sort Luo, Ning
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Nocardiosis is an uncommon opportunistic infection seen in immunocompromised patients or those with a dysfunctional immune system. Nocardia asteroides infection in patients with Pemphigus foliaceus (PF) has never been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an interesting case of nocardiosis-characterized by pulmonary intra-cavitary infection, in a 54-year-old man with PF and diabetes mellitus. The man finally recovered from the infection. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first case reporting pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with PF. We recommend that physicians be aware of nocardiosis in patients with pemphigus as a possible cause of underlying infectious disease to avoid misdiagnoses and mismanagement.
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spelling pubmed-77888312021-01-07 Pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with pemphigus foliaceus: case report and literature review Luo, Ning Tan, Shifan Li, Xiaocai Liu, Si Singh, Shivank Chen, Mafeng Yang, Weiye He, Yanhong Chen, Chunna Liang, Min BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Nocardiosis is an uncommon opportunistic infection seen in immunocompromised patients or those with a dysfunctional immune system. Nocardia asteroides infection in patients with Pemphigus foliaceus (PF) has never been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an interesting case of nocardiosis-characterized by pulmonary intra-cavitary infection, in a 54-year-old man with PF and diabetes mellitus. The man finally recovered from the infection. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first case reporting pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with PF. We recommend that physicians be aware of nocardiosis in patients with pemphigus as a possible cause of underlying infectious disease to avoid misdiagnoses and mismanagement. BioMed Central 2021-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7788831/ /pubmed/33407179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05673-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Case Report
Luo, Ning
Tan, Shifan
Li, Xiaocai
Liu, Si
Singh, Shivank
Chen, Mafeng
Yang, Weiye
He, Yanhong
Chen, Chunna
Liang, Min
Pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with pemphigus foliaceus: case report and literature review
title Pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with pemphigus foliaceus: case report and literature review
title_full Pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with pemphigus foliaceus: case report and literature review
title_fullStr Pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with pemphigus foliaceus: case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with pemphigus foliaceus: case report and literature review
title_short Pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with pemphigus foliaceus: case report and literature review
title_sort pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with pemphigus foliaceus: case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7788831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33407179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05673-5
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