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