An Unusual Presentation From a Sporadic Partially Acid-Fast Aerobic Actinomycete Resistant to Common Antibiotics

• Main Authors: Sreedhar Adapa MD (Author), Srikanth Naramala MD (Author), Vijay Gayam MD (Author), Rajan Kapoor MD (Author), Mina Raju DO (Author), Pallav Patel MD (Author), Venu Madhav Konala MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Nocardia causes rare opportunistic infections, that can be challenging to diagnose because of atypical features on conventional microbiological identification techniques. Immunosuppressed patients are more susceptible to infections from Nocardia and are associated with multi-organ involvement. We re...