A complicated case of an immunocompetent patient with disseminated nocardiosis

• Main Authors: Chad J. Cooper (Author), Sarmad Said (Author), Maryna Popp (Author), Haider Alkhateeb (Author), Carlos Rodriguez (Author), Mateo Porres Aguilar (Author), Ogechika Alozie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Nocardia species are aerobic, gram positive filamentous branching bacteria that have the potential to cause localized or disseminated infection. Nocardiosis is a rare disease that usually affects immunocompromised patients and presents as either pulmonary, cutaneous or disseminated nocardiosis. Fort...