Nocardia in an Immunocompetent Host Masquerading As Lung Cancer: A Case Report

Nocardiosis is generally regarded as an opportunistic infection that can present as a cutaneous, pulmonary, or disseminated disease based on host immunity status. Pulmonary nocardiosis is typically seen in immunocompromised patients; however, it can rarely be present in immunocompetent patients. We...

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Autores principales: Mahat, Jagat B, Hussien, Siham, Negassa, Rajan M, Reddy, Yash, Ayele, Girma M, Michael, Miriam B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9388328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989832
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27039
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author Mahat, Jagat B
Hussien, Siham
Negassa, Rajan M
Reddy, Yash
Ayele, Girma M
Michael, Miriam B
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description Nocardiosis is generally regarded as an opportunistic infection that can present as a cutaneous, pulmonary, or disseminated disease based on host immunity status. Pulmonary nocardiosis is typically seen in immunocompromised patients; however, it can rarely be present in immunocompetent patients. We present a rare case of an immunocompetent patient who was thought to have a lung malignancy but was found to have pulmonary nocardiosis upon further investigation.
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spelling pubmed-93883282022-08-20 Nocardia in an Immunocompetent Host Masquerading As Lung Cancer: A Case Report Mahat, Jagat B Hussien, Siham Negassa, Rajan M Reddy, Yash Ayele, Girma M Michael, Miriam B Cureus Internal Medicine Nocardiosis is generally regarded as an opportunistic infection that can present as a cutaneous, pulmonary, or disseminated disease based on host immunity status. Pulmonary nocardiosis is typically seen in immunocompromised patients; however, it can rarely be present in immunocompetent patients. We present a rare case of an immunocompetent patient who was thought to have a lung malignancy but was found to have pulmonary nocardiosis upon further investigation. Cureus 2022-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9388328/ /pubmed/35989832 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27039 Text en Copyright © 2022, Mahat et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mahat, Jagat B
Hussien, Siham
Negassa, Rajan M
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Michael, Miriam B
Nocardia in an Immunocompetent Host Masquerading As Lung Cancer: A Case Report
title Nocardia in an Immunocompetent Host Masquerading As Lung Cancer: A Case Report
title_full Nocardia in an Immunocompetent Host Masquerading As Lung Cancer: A Case Report
title_fullStr Nocardia in an Immunocompetent Host Masquerading As Lung Cancer: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Nocardia in an Immunocompetent Host Masquerading As Lung Cancer: A Case Report
title_short Nocardia in an Immunocompetent Host Masquerading As Lung Cancer: A Case Report
title_sort nocardia in an immunocompetent host masquerading as lung cancer: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9388328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989832
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27039
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