A fatal case of severe Nocardia farcinica pneumonia and literature review of 25 cases
10.3969/j.issn.1671-9638.2017.02.011
- VernacularTitle:肺皮疽奴卡菌重症肺炎1例并25例病例文献复习
- Author:
Jingni HE
;
Yuanyuan LI
;
Xiaoli SU
;
Chengping HU
;
Pinhua PAN
- Keywords:
Nocardia;
severe pneumonia;
pulmonary nocardiosis;
Nocardia farcinica
- From:
Chinese Journal of Infection Control
2017;16(2):146-150,155
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Nocardia is a genus of gram-positive,weakly acid-fast,filamentous aerobic actinomycetes,which mainly causes infection in immunocompromised persons. We reported a successfully treated fatal case of severe pneumonia caused by Nocardia farcinica in a hospital,then reviewed 25 domestic and abroad case reports about nocardiosis combined with severe pneumonia occurred since 2006,so as to improve health care workers'cognition on clinical manifestations,image features,pathogenic characteristics,and diagnostic and treatment schemes of se-vere pneumonia caused by Nocardia farcinica.
