Stroke like presentation of disseminated CNS Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient: Case report and review of the literature

We describe a rare case of pulmonary and central nervous system (CNS) Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient presenting with stroke like symptoms and newly discovered pulmonary and brain mass. Initial work up suggested lung cancer with metastasis to the brain. However, further...

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Autores principales: Diioia, Alessandra, Kalra, Lalit, Krop, Lynne C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8287212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34307047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01223
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description We describe a rare case of pulmonary and central nervous system (CNS) Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient presenting with stroke like symptoms and newly discovered pulmonary and brain mass. Initial work up suggested lung cancer with metastasis to the brain. However, further evaluation revealed disseminated N. beijingensis. A literature review of N. beijingensis infections in immunocompetent host is also presented.
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spelling pubmed-82872122021-07-22 Stroke like presentation of disseminated CNS Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient: Case report and review of the literature Diioia, Alessandra Kalra, Lalit Krop, Lynne C. IDCases Case Report We describe a rare case of pulmonary and central nervous system (CNS) Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient presenting with stroke like symptoms and newly discovered pulmonary and brain mass. Initial work up suggested lung cancer with metastasis to the brain. However, further evaluation revealed disseminated N. beijingensis. A literature review of N. beijingensis infections in immunocompetent host is also presented. Elsevier 2021-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8287212/ /pubmed/34307047 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01223 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd. https://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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Stroke like presentation of disseminated CNS Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient: Case report and review of the literature
title Stroke like presentation of disseminated CNS Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient: Case report and review of the literature
title_full Stroke like presentation of disseminated CNS Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient: Case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Stroke like presentation of disseminated CNS Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient: Case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Stroke like presentation of disseminated CNS Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient: Case report and review of the literature
title_short Stroke like presentation of disseminated CNS Nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient: Case report and review of the literature
title_sort stroke like presentation of disseminated cns nocardia beijingensis infection in an immunocompetent patient: case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8287212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34307047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01223
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