Challenges in treatment of disseminated nocardiosis in an elderly patient with renal failure on corticosteroids: a case report

We report the case of a 71-year-old Japanese man with a history of chronic kidney disease and sarcoidosis receiving chronic corticosteroids who presented with disseminated Nocardia brasiliensis infection. He initially showed improvement with empiric antimicrobial therapy including trimethoprim-sulfa...

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Published in:IDCases
Main Authors: Nagasaki, Kazuya, Gomi, Harumi, Ishioka, Haruhiko, Taguchi, Shijima, Takayashiki, Norio, Kobayashi, Hiroyuki
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Elsevier 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191206/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32373466
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00755
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