Implantable Defibrillator Pocket Infection and Bacteremia Caused by Nocardia Nova Complex Isolate

Overview

Journal J Clin Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2003 Nov 8

PMID 14605196

Citations 1

Authors

Keith Boell

Robert Gotoff

Michael Foltzer

Randle Storm

Paul P Bourbeau

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Abstract

Nocardia spp. are common environmental organisms that, to our knowledge, have never been implicated as causing an implantable defibrillator or pacemaker infection. We describe a 70-year-old male with a recent implantable cardiac defibrillator revision and subsequent device infection and bacteremia caused by a Nocardia nova complex isolate.

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