Cavitary Pneumonia Caused by Nocardia Otitidiscaviarum

Overview

Journal Braz J Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2013 Sep 14

PMID 24031500

Citations 4

Authors

A Betran

M C Villuendas

A Rezusta

B Moles

M C Rubio

M J Revillo

P Boiron

S Bello

V Rodriguez-Nava

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Abstract

We report a case of cavitary pneumonia caused by N. otitidiscaviarum in a man with diabetes mellitus and thrombocytopenia treated with systemic corticosteroid. Taxonomic identification involved phenotypic testing and molecular identification that was carried out by DNA sequencing of the 16SrRNA gene.

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