Pulmonary Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient with Cystic Fibrosis
Nocardia spp. are bacteria of low virulence that cause infection classically in immunocompromised hosts with the lungs as the primary site of infection in the majority of cases. Patients with cystic fibrosis have pulmonary disease characterized by frequent and progressive bacterial infections. Repor...
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| description | Nocardia spp. are bacteria of low virulence that cause infection classically in immunocompromised hosts with the lungs as the primary site of infection in the majority of cases. Patients with cystic fibrosis have pulmonary disease characterized by frequent and progressive bacterial infections. Reports of Nocardia spp. isolation in CF are rare in the literature and may represent colonization or active infection, the significance and optimal treatment of which are unknown. We report the second case to date of Nocardia transvalensis pulmonary infection in an immunocompetent patient with CF and the first in a child under the age of eighteen. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a560e80bdf8446f4a2c3f4ca5dd489142025-02-03T06:42:07ZengWileyCase Reports in Pulmonology2090-68462090-68542015-01-01201510.1155/2015/984171984171Pulmonary Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient with Cystic FibrosisLucy Schoen0Jonathan D. Santoro1Carlos Milla2Sumit Bhargava3Stanford University School of Medicine, 291 Campus Drive, Li Ka Shing Building, Stanford, CA 94305-5101, USADepartment of Pediatrics, Stanford Children’s Hospital, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USADivision of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Children’s Hospital, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USADivision of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Children’s Hospital, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USANocardia spp. are bacteria of low virulence that cause infection classically in immunocompromised hosts with the lungs as the primary site of infection in the majority of cases. Patients with cystic fibrosis have pulmonary disease characterized by frequent and progressive bacterial infections. Reports of Nocardia spp. isolation in CF are rare in the literature and may represent colonization or active infection, the significance and optimal treatment of which are unknown. We report the second case to date of Nocardia transvalensis pulmonary infection in an immunocompetent patient with CF and the first in a child under the age of eighteen.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/984171 |
| spellingShingle | Lucy Schoen Jonathan D. Santoro Carlos Milla Sumit Bhargava Pulmonary Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient with Cystic Fibrosis Case Reports in Pulmonology |
| title | Pulmonary Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient with Cystic Fibrosis |
| title_full | Pulmonary Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient with Cystic Fibrosis |
| title_fullStr | Pulmonary Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient with Cystic Fibrosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pulmonary Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient with Cystic Fibrosis |
| title_short | Pulmonary Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient with Cystic Fibrosis |
| title_sort | pulmonary nocardiosis in an immunocompetent patient with cystic fibrosis |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/984171 |
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