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.
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| author | Hossein A. Rahdar Mehrnaz A. Gharabaghi Abbas Bahador Shahram Shahraki-Zahedani Morteza Karami-Zarandi Shahram Mahmoudi Mohammad M. Feizabadi |
| author_facet | Hossein A. Rahdar Mehrnaz A. Gharabaghi Abbas Bahador Shahram Shahraki-Zahedani Morteza Karami-Zarandi Shahram Mahmoudi Mohammad M. Feizabadi |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-38b8c8e1845946aca66a00951967998f2022-12-22T03:03:22ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-60592020-03-0126361061110.3201/eid2603.180725Pulmonary Nocardia ignorata Infection in Gardener, Iran, 2017Hossein A. RahdarMehrnaz A. GharabaghiAbbas BahadorShahram Shahraki-ZahedaniMorteza Karami-ZarandiShahram MahmoudiMohammad M. FeizabadiNocardia 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.https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/3/18-0725_articleActinomycetalesNocardiaceaeemerging communicable diseasesNocardia ignorataIranNocardia infections |
| spellingShingle | Hossein A. Rahdar Mehrnaz A. Gharabaghi Abbas Bahador Shahram Shahraki-Zahedani Morteza Karami-Zarandi Shahram Mahmoudi Mohammad M. Feizabadi Pulmonary Nocardia ignorata Infection in Gardener, Iran, 2017 Emerging Infectious Diseases Actinomycetales Nocardiaceae emerging communicable diseases Nocardia ignorata Iran Nocardia infections |
| title | Pulmonary Nocardia ignorata Infection in Gardener, Iran, 2017 |
| title_full | Pulmonary Nocardia ignorata Infection in Gardener, Iran, 2017 |
| title_fullStr | Pulmonary Nocardia ignorata Infection in Gardener, Iran, 2017 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pulmonary Nocardia ignorata Infection in Gardener, Iran, 2017 |
| title_short | Pulmonary Nocardia ignorata Infection in Gardener, Iran, 2017 |
| title_sort | pulmonary nocardia ignorata infection in gardener iran 2017 |
| topic | Actinomycetales Nocardiaceae emerging communicable diseases Nocardia ignorata Iran Nocardia infections |
| url | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/3/18-0725_article |
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