Literature DB >> 23188464

Blood culture positive Nocardia asteroides infection: a case report.

Wolfgang Höpler1, Hermann Laferl, Marton Szell, Peter Pongratz, Irmgard Brandl, Gerhard Tucek, Christoph Wenisch.   

Abstract

We report a case of nocardiosis in a patient with several risk factors for this rare infection. Radiologically, the patient's multiple lung abscesses were misinterpreted as pulmonary metastases. Diagnosis was finally reached by the growth of Nocardia asteroides in two different blood culture sets. Nocardia bacteraemia is a rare clinical event. Despite initiation of an effective antibiotic therapy, the patient died. Autopsy revealed disseminated nocardial abscesses in the lungs, the kidneys and the brain.

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Year:  2012        PMID： 23188464     DOI： 10.1007/s10354-012-0156-2

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Wien Med Wochenschr        ISSN： 0043-5341


  12 in total

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Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2003-10       Impact factor: 5.948

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3.  Corticosteroids in the treatment of severe nocardia pneumonia in chronic granulomatous disease.

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Journal:  Pediatr Infect Dis J       Date:  2011-09       Impact factor: 2.129

4.  Clinical spectrum and outcome of Nocardia infection: experience of 15-year period from a single tertiary medical center.

Authors:  Emilia Hardak; Mordechai Yigla; Gidon Berger; Hannah Sprecher; Ilana Oren
Journal:  Am J Med Sci       Date:  2012-04       Impact factor: 2.378

5.  Disseminated Nocardia farcinica infection in a patient with myasthenia gravis successfully treated by linezolid: a case report and literature review.

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Journal:  J Infect Chemother       Date:  2011-10-14       Impact factor: 2.211

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Journal:  Medicine (Baltimore)       Date:  2009-07       Impact factor: 1.889

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Journal:  Medicine (Baltimore)       Date:  1998-07       Impact factor: 1.889

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Authors:  B L Beaman; L Beaman
Journal:  Clin Microbiol Rev       Date:  1994-04       Impact factor: 26.132

9.  Isolation of Nocardia sp. from blood cultures in a teaching hospital.

Authors:  J Esteban; J M Ramos; M L Fernandez-Guerrero; F Soriano
Journal:  Scand J Infect Dis       Date:  1994

10.  Central venous catheter-associated Nocardia bacteremia in cancer patients.

Authors:  Fadi Al Akhrass; Ray Hachem; Jamal A Mohamed; Jeffrey Tarrand; Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis; Jyotsna Chandra; Mahmoud Ghannoum; Souha Haydoura; Ann Marie Chaftari; Issam Raad
Journal:  Emerg Infect Dis       Date:  2011-09       Impact factor: 6.883
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1.  Soil-acquired cutaneous nocardiosis on the forearm of a healthy male contracted in a swamp in rural eastern Virginia.

Authors:  James R Palmieri; Arben Santo; Shawn E Johnson
Journal:  Int Med Case Rep J       Date:  2014-03-07

2.  A complicated case of an immunocompetent patient with disseminated nocardiosis.

Authors:  Chad J Cooper; Sarmad Said; Maryna Popp; Haider Alkhateeb; Carlos Rodriguez; Mateo Porres Aguilar; Ogechika Alozie
Journal:  Infect Dis Rep       Date:  2014-04-04
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