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ArticleCase reports in infectious diseases2020

Incidental Finding of Nocardia: A Case Series from a Tertiary Care Centre in Uttarakhand.

Aroop Mohanty, Suneeta Meena, Subodh Pandey Kumar, Puneet Kumar Gupta, Neelam Kaistha, Pratima Gupta, Mithilesh Kumar Jha, Sasi Rekha

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Aroop MohantyDepartment of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Suneeta MeenaDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2927-0840
Subodh Pandey KumarDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Puneet Kumar GuptaDepartment of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Neelam KaisthaDepartment of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Pratima GuptaDepartment of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Mithilesh Kumar JhaDepartment of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Sasi RekhaDepartment of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences · INSeema Dental College and Hospital · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nocardiosis is a rare bacterial infection that may lead to a severe disease. These infections are rare among normal population and are showing an increasing trend worldwide attributable to the increase in the immunosuppressed population. Most of these patients present with nonspecific clinical features such as fever, productive cough, and exertional dyspnoea as seen in our series of patients which makes it difficult to be diagnosed. Pulmonary nocardiosis is rarely clinically suspected and often diagnosed very late in the course of disease resulting in high mortality. A similar observation was made in one of our cases where the patient was being treated on the lines of pneumonia, and in the end she was diagnosed with pulmonary nocardiosis. In view of the limited literature available, we report here a case series of pulmonary nocardiosis in immunosuppressed patients diagnosed incidentally by fungal KOH mount. The most common conditions causing immunosuppression were type II DM, COPD, and pulmonary tuberculosis.

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