Literature DB >> 16798710

Disseminated nocardiosis due to unusual species: two case reports.

Emine Alp1, Orhan Yildiz, Bilgehan Aygen, Bulent Sumerkan, Ismail Sari, Kemal Koc, Andrée Couble, Frederic Laurent, Patrick Boiron, Mehmet Doganay.   

Abstract

Pulmonary nocardiosis is the major clinical manifestation of human nocardiosis and disseminated infection can be seen in immunocompromised patients. N. asteroides is the predominant pathogen associated with disseminated diseases. We report 2 cases of pulmonary nocardiosis admitted with disseminated infection, caused by rare species of Nocardia: Nocardia transvalensis and Nocardia cyriacigeorgica.

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Year:  2006        PMID: 16798710     DOI: 10.1080/00365540500532860

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Scand J Infect Dis        ISSN: 0036-5548


  7 in total

1.  Organisms designated as Nocardia asteroides drug pattern type VI are members of the species Nocardia cyriacigeorgica.

Authors:  Patricia S Conville; Frank G Witebsky
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2007-05-02       Impact factor: 5.948

2.  Nocardia cyriacigeorgica, an emerging pathogen in the United States.

Authors:  Robert Schlaberg; Richard C Huard; Phyllis Della-Latta
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2007-11-14       Impact factor: 5.948

3.  Persistent neutrophilic meningitis in an immunocompetent patient after basilar skull fracture: case report.

Authors:  Jaime S Green; Shira R Abeles; Daniel Z Uslan; Sanjay R Mehta
Journal:  BMC Infect Dis       Date:  2011-05-19       Impact factor: 3.090

Review 4.  Nocardiosis of the central nervous system: experience from a general hospital and review of 84 cases from the literature.

Authors:  Theodora Anagnostou; Marios Arvanitis; Themistoklis K Kourkoumpetis; Athanasios Desalermos; Herman A Carneiro; Eleftherios Mylonakis
Journal:  Medicine (Baltimore)       Date:  2014-01       Impact factor: 1.889

5.  Pulmonary infection caused by Nocardia cyriacigeorgica in a patient with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: A case report.

Authors:  Jianyong Wu; Yingping Wu; Zhiqiang Zhu
Journal:  Medicine (Baltimore)       Date:  2018-10       Impact factor: 1.817

6.  Cerebellar nocardiosis and myopathy from long-term corticosteroids for idiopathic thrombocytopenia.

Authors:  Marlies Frank; Herbert Woschnagg; Günther Mölzer; Josef Finsterer
Journal:  Yonsei Med J       Date:  2009-12-29       Impact factor: 2.759

Review 7.  Isolated Nocardiosis, an Unrecognized Primary Immunodeficiency?

Authors:  Rubén Martínez-Barricarte
Journal:  Front Immunol       Date:  2020-10-20       Impact factor: 7.561

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