Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2018
Systemic Nocardiosis : A rare Infection
Naim Kadri, Bhavesh Patel, Drishti Khatri, Kiran Padhy
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Nocardiosis is an infectious disease that occurs in cutaneous, pulmonary and disseminated forms. It is usually associated with host defense defect. Infection arises by direct skin inoculation or inhalation. Immunocompromised status, alcoholism & certain lung diseases predispose to pulmonary & CNS nocardiosis. Our patient was a 70 yr old alcoholic male suffering from dermatomyositis for which he was on prolonged oral steroids. He had lung infection with CNS spread, which was diagnosed as Nocardiosis. He was put on high dose Trimethoprim– Sulphamethoxazole, Meropenem and Ceftriaxone. With appropriate treatment, the mortality rate for pulmonary or disseminated nocardiosis outside the CNS can be significantly decreased. Cure rates of almost 100% are found in patients with skin or soft tissue involvement, compared with 90% in pulmonary disease, 63% in disseminated infection, and 50% in ain abscess. CNS disease carries a higher mortality rate.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijsr
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Systemic Nocardiosis : A rare Infection , Naim Kadri, Bhavesh Patel, Drishti Khatri, Kiran Padhy , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7|Issue-12| December-2018
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Systemic Nocardiosis : A rare Infection , Naim Kadri, Bhavesh Patel, Drishti Khatri, Kiran Padhy , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7|Issue-12| December-2018
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