Disseminated Nocardia infection—A rare presentation

Nocardia infection is rare and requires early diagnosis, extended use of sulfonamides for good prognosis, and prevention of recurrence. It is crucial to suspect nocardiosis in cases of atypical pneumonias or unexplained visceral organ dysfunction.

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Autores principales: Arora, Harkesh, Ramalingam, Sathishkumar, Sanghavi, Rajvee, Balogun, Adedayo, Muruganandam, Maheshwari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8380077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34457292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4673
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author Arora, Harkesh
Ramalingam, Sathishkumar
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spelling pubmed-83800772021-08-27 Disseminated Nocardia infection—A rare presentation Arora, Harkesh Ramalingam, Sathishkumar Sanghavi, Rajvee Balogun, Adedayo Muruganandam, Maheshwari Clin Case Rep Case Reports Nocardia infection is rare and requires early diagnosis, extended use of sulfonamides for good prognosis, and prevention of recurrence. It is crucial to suspect nocardiosis in cases of atypical pneumonias or unexplained visceral organ dysfunction. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8380077/ /pubmed/34457292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4673 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Arora, Harkesh
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Sanghavi, Rajvee
Balogun, Adedayo
Muruganandam, Maheshwari
Disseminated Nocardia infection—A rare presentation
title Disseminated Nocardia infection—A rare presentation
title_full Disseminated Nocardia infection—A rare presentation
title_fullStr Disseminated Nocardia infection—A rare presentation
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Nocardia infection—A rare presentation
title_short Disseminated Nocardia infection—A rare presentation
title_sort disseminated nocardia infection—a rare presentation
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8380077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34457292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4673
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