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ArticleAnnals of laboratory medicine2013

The first Korean case of disseminated mycetoma caused by Nocardia pseudobrasiliensis in a patient on long-term corticosteroid therapy for the treatment of microscopic polyangiitis.

Chang-Ahn Seol, Heungsup Sung, Duck-Hee Kim, Misuk Ji, Yong-Pil Chong, Mi-Na Kim

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Article in Annals of laboratory medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Chang-Ahn SeolDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Heungsup Sung
Duck-Hee Kim
Misuk Ji
Yong-Pil Chong
Mi-Na Kim
University of Ulsan · KRAsan Medical Center · KRUlsan College · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nocardia pseudobrasiliensis is predominantly associated with invasive infections in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of disseminated mycetoma caused by N. pseudobrasiliensis in a 57-yr-old woman with microscopic polyangiitis, who was treated for 3 months with corticosteroids. The same organism was isolated from mycetoma cultures on the patient's scalp, right arm, and right leg. The phenotypic characteristics of the isolate were consistent with both Nocardia brasiliensis and N. pseudobrasiliensis, i.e., catalase and urease positivity, hydrolysis of esculin, gelatin, casein, hypoxanthine, and tyrosine, but no hydrolysis of xanthine. The isolate was identified as N. pseudobrasiliensis based on 16S rRNA and hsp65 gene sequencing. The patient was treated for 5 days with intravenous ampicillin/sulbactam, at which time both the mycetomas and fever had subsided and discharged on amoxicillin/clavulanate. This case highlights a very rare presentation of mainly cutaneous mycetoma caused by N. pseudobrasiliensis. This is the first reported case of N. pseudobrasiliensis infection in Korea.

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Adrenal Cortex HormonesAsian PeopleBacterial ProteinsFemaleHumansMicroscopic PolyangiitisMiddle AgedMycetomaNocardiaRepublic of KoreaRNA, Ribosomal, 16SScalpSequence Analysis, DNASkinAdrenal Cortex HormonesBacterial ProteinsRNA, Ribosomal, 16S16S ribosomal RNACorticosteroidshsp65MycetomaNocardia pseudobrasiliensis

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PMID23667849
PMCPMC3646197
OpenAlexW2002878633

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