Pulmonary Nocardiosis in the Immunocompetent Host: Case Series.

Case Rep Pulmonol

Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.

Published: October 2015

Pulmonary nocardiosis is commonly recognized as an opportunistic infection in patients with predisposing immunosuppressive conditions. However, reports of pulmonary nocardiosis in the immunocompetent host are rare. Here, we report a case series of four patients with pulmonary nocardiosis without a predisposing condition.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4605260PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/314831DOI Listing

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