NDLI: Pulmonary nocardiosis due to Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in an immunocompetent host- a rare case report.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Ramamoorthi, Kusugodlu Pruthvi, Baise Chandrappagouda Rao, Neeleshwara Radhakrishna Belle, Jayaprakash Chawla, Kiran
Description	Country affiliation: India Author Affiliation: Ramamoorthi K ( Department of Medicine, KMC, Manipal, Manipal University, India. rmoorthi414@gmail.com)
Abstract	Nocardiosis is a localized or disseminated infection caused by soil-borne aerobic actinomycetes. Pulmonary nocardiosis is a rare infection mostly occurring in immunocompromised patients. We reported a case of 36 year old immunocompetent non-smoker female patient with no premorbid illness who presented with fever, cough with scanty sputum, hemoptysis, left sided chest pain and exertional dyspnea for two weeks. There was no past history of tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus or steroid therapy. Chest X-ray showed homogenous peripherally based opacity in the left upper zone. Bronchoscopy was done and brushing sent for culture, which showed colonies with features of Nocardia species after 48 hours. Further phenotypic characterization revealed it to be Nocardia otitidiscaviarum. Patient was treated with cotrimaxazole for six months after which complete recovery was evidenced symptomatically and radiologically. We report this case to emphasize the fact that among the Nocardia species, Nocardia otitidiscaviarum as causative agent of pulmonary disease is rarely reported even in immunocompromised individuals.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	19957645
e-ISSN	23524146
Journal	Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine
Issue Number	5
Volume Number	4
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2011-05-01
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Discipline Tropical Medicine Lung Diseases Etiology Nocardia Infections Nocardia Isolation & Purification Diagnosis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Case study Article
Subject	Medicine

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