Cerebral nocardiosis with osteomyelitis of skull vault complicating a primary neck lesion in an immunocompetent patient: a case report

Nocardia infection is an uncommon and rare condition in immunocompetent patient. A case of cutaneous nocardiosis complicated with osteomyelitis of the vault scalp in a 64-year-old man, with no remarkable past medical history, is reported. Treatment with trimethoprime-sulfamethoxazole than doxycyclin...

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Autores principales: Marrakchi, Wafa, Aouam, Abir, Kooli, Ikbel, Brahim, Hajer Ben, Toumi, Adnene, Chakroun, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34367428
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.349.26635
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author Marrakchi, Wafa
Aouam, Abir
Kooli, Ikbel
Brahim, Hajer Ben
Toumi, Adnene
Chakroun, Mohamed
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description Nocardia infection is an uncommon and rare condition in immunocompetent patient. A case of cutaneous nocardiosis complicated with osteomyelitis of the vault scalp in a 64-year-old man, with no remarkable past medical history, is reported. Treatment with trimethoprime-sulfamethoxazole than doxycycline for 12 months led to complete resolution and no evidence of recurrence was noted. Nocardia infection should be considered even in immunocomptent patients and doxycycline is a good alternative for treatment.
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spelling pubmed-83089352021-08-06 Cerebral nocardiosis with osteomyelitis of skull vault complicating a primary neck lesion in an immunocompetent patient: a case report Marrakchi, Wafa Aouam, Abir Kooli, Ikbel Brahim, Hajer Ben Toumi, Adnene Chakroun, Mohamed Pan Afr Med J Case Report Nocardia infection is an uncommon and rare condition in immunocompetent patient. A case of cutaneous nocardiosis complicated with osteomyelitis of the vault scalp in a 64-year-old man, with no remarkable past medical history, is reported. Treatment with trimethoprime-sulfamethoxazole than doxycycline for 12 months led to complete resolution and no evidence of recurrence was noted. Nocardia infection should be considered even in immunocomptent patients and doxycycline is a good alternative for treatment. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8308935/ /pubmed/34367428 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.349.26635 Text en Copyright: Wafa Marrakchi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Marrakchi, Wafa
Aouam, Abir
Kooli, Ikbel
Brahim, Hajer Ben
Toumi, Adnene
Chakroun, Mohamed
Cerebral nocardiosis with osteomyelitis of skull vault complicating a primary neck lesion in an immunocompetent patient: a case report
title Cerebral nocardiosis with osteomyelitis of skull vault complicating a primary neck lesion in an immunocompetent patient: a case report
title_full Cerebral nocardiosis with osteomyelitis of skull vault complicating a primary neck lesion in an immunocompetent patient: a case report
title_fullStr Cerebral nocardiosis with osteomyelitis of skull vault complicating a primary neck lesion in an immunocompetent patient: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Cerebral nocardiosis with osteomyelitis of skull vault complicating a primary neck lesion in an immunocompetent patient: a case report
title_short Cerebral nocardiosis with osteomyelitis of skull vault complicating a primary neck lesion in an immunocompetent patient: a case report
title_sort cerebral nocardiosis with osteomyelitis of skull vault complicating a primary neck lesion in an immunocompetent patient: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34367428
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.349.26635
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