Pulmonary Nocardia ignorata Infection in Gardener, Iran, 2017

Nocardia ignorata, which was first described in 2001, is a rare human pathogen. We report a case of pulmonary nocardiosis caused by this bacterium in a 55-year-old man from Iran. The patient, a gardener, had frequent exposure to soil and may have acquired the infection from that source.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hossein A. Rahdar, Mehrnaz A. Gharabaghi, Abbas Bahador, Shahram Shahraki-Zahedani, Morteza Karami-Zarandi, Shahram Mahmoudi, Mohammad M. Feizabadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-03-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/3/18-0725_article