Aghajanpour, soudabej, Abolghasemi, sara, Dabiri, Hossein, Tehrani, Shabnam, Divsalar, Farshad (2017). Disseminated Nocardia farcinica infection in a Patient with Pneumoconiosis. , 3(4), 143-146.
soudabej Aghajanpour; sara Abolghasemi; Hossein Dabiri; Shabnam Tehrani; Farshad Divsalar. "Disseminated Nocardia farcinica infection in a Patient with Pneumoconiosis". , 3, 4, 2017, 143-146.
Aghajanpour, soudabej, Abolghasemi, sara, Dabiri, Hossein, Tehrani, Shabnam, Divsalar, Farshad (2017). 'Disseminated Nocardia farcinica infection in a Patient with Pneumoconiosis', , 3(4), pp. 143-146.
Aghajanpour, soudabej, Abolghasemi, sara, Dabiri, Hossein, Tehrani, Shabnam, Divsalar, Farshad Disseminated Nocardia farcinica infection in a Patient with Pneumoconiosis. , 2017; 3(4): 143-146.

Disseminated Nocardia farcinica infection in a Patient with Pneumoconiosis

Infection Epidemiology and Microbiology
Article 8, Volume 3, Issue 4 - Serial Number 9, 2017, Pages 143-146    PDF (888.58 K)
Authors
soudabej Aghajanpour* 1; sara Abolghasemi2; Hossein Dabiri3; Shabnam Tehrani2; Farshad Divsalar4
1Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,Iran.
2Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
3Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid BeheshtiUniversity of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
4Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of MedicalSciences, Tehran, IR Iran
Abstract
Background: Nocardia as a Gram-positive bacillus with a microscopic appearance of branching hyphae can produce considerable disease in an appropriable host. N. facinica is a member of genus Nocardia that is potentially life threatening; therefore, therapy of N. farcinica infection remains difficult.
Case presentation: This study is a case report of disseminated N. farcinica infection in a 64-year-old man with a history of pneumoconiosis with brain, lung, and skin involvement in Labbafi Nejad hospital, Tehran, IR Iran in November 2013 with a discussion about diagnosis and management of this particular patient.
Conclusion: Due to the involvement of brain, triple therapy was started with meropenem, amikacin, and linezolid.
Keywords
pneumoconiosis; Nocardias spp; brain abscess
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