| Literature DB >> 16626912 |
Hélène Marchandin1, Aurélia Eden, Hélène Jean-Pierre, Jacques Reynes, Estelle Jumas-Bilak, Patrick Boiron, Frédéric Laurent.
Abstract
We describe a case of culture-negative cerebral nocardiosis in a 34-year-old immunocompetent man who presented multiple cerebral abscesses. All bacteriologic cultures were negative. Nocardiosis was diagnosed by using a direct genus-specific 16S rDNA amplification method, and Nocardia abscessus was identified by hsp65 sequence analysis. The patient is alive and well on imipenem and doxycycline therapy, 14 months after onset.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16626912 DOI： 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.01.023
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis ISSN： 0732-8893 Impact factor: 2.803