Disseminated Nocardiosis: A Successful Blind Strategy of Treatment in an HIV Infected Patient

Background. Nocardiosis is a rare disease that mainly affects severely immunocompromised patients. Symptoms are nonspecific and microbiological isolation is difficult, hiding the diagnosis. Treatment should be guided by species and susceptibility testing. Findings. We report a clinical case of a dis...

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Main Authors: Ana C. Guerra, Dário Batista, Maria J. Aleixo, Paulo Saraiva, Maria J. Aguas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/260640
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