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Incidental Finding of Nocardia: A Case Series from a Tertiary Care Centre in Uttarakhand
Joint Authors
Mohanty, Aroop
Meena, Suneeta
Kumar, Subodh Pandey
Gupta, Puneet Kumar
Kaistha, Neelam
Gupta, Pratima
Jha, Mithilesh Kumar
Rekha, Sasi
Source
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-04-09
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Nocardiosis is a rare bacterial infection that may lead to a severe disease.
These infections are rare among normal population and are showing an increasing trend worldwide attributable to the increase in the immunosuppressed population.
Most of these patients present with nonspecific clinical features such as fever, productive cough, and exertional dyspnoea as seen in our series of patients which makes it difficult to be diagnosed.
Pulmonary nocardiosis is rarely clinically suspected and often diagnosed very late in the course of disease resulting in high mortality.
A similar observation was made in one of our cases where the patient was being treated on the lines of pneumonia, and in the end she was diagnosed with pulmonary nocardiosis.
In view of the limited literature available, we report here a case series of pulmonary nocardiosis in immunosuppressed patients diagnosed incidentally by fungal KOH mount.
The most common conditions causing immunosuppression were type II DM, COPD, and pulmonary tuberculosis.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mohanty, Aroop& Meena, Suneeta& Kumar, Subodh Pandey& Gupta, Puneet Kumar& Kaistha, Neelam& Gupta, Pratima…[et al.]. 2020. Incidental Finding of Nocardia: A Case Series from a Tertiary Care Centre in Uttarakhand. Case Reports in Infectious Diseases،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1148204
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mohanty, Aroop…[et al.]. Incidental Finding of Nocardia: A Case Series from a Tertiary Care Centre in Uttarakhand. Case Reports in Infectious Diseases No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1148204
American Medical Association (AMA)
Mohanty, Aroop& Meena, Suneeta& Kumar, Subodh Pandey& Gupta, Puneet Kumar& Kaistha, Neelam& Gupta, Pratima…[et al.]. Incidental Finding of Nocardia: A Case Series from a Tertiary Care Centre in Uttarakhand. Case Reports in Infectious Diseases. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1148204
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1148204