2015
DOI: 10.3947/ic.2015.47.4.304
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Erratum: Nocardia Brain Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
3
1
1

Citation Types

0
9
0

Year Published

2016
2016
2023
2023

Publication Types

Select...
6

Relationship

0
6

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 7 publications
(9 citation statements)
references
References 0 publications
0
9
0
Order By: Relevance
“…Nocardia affects the lungs more frequently than the central nervous system [5]; infections account for 2% of brain abscesses, and usually affect immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV co-infection and those receiving cancer chemotherapy or long-term immunomodulatory therapy [4,6,7]. Infection due to N. brasiliensis is rare compared with that due to other species, which generally results from direct traumatic inoculation into the skin and hematogenous spread from the primary location to the central nervous system where a brain abscess is formed.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…Nocardia affects the lungs more frequently than the central nervous system [5]; infections account for 2% of brain abscesses, and usually affect immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV co-infection and those receiving cancer chemotherapy or long-term immunomodulatory therapy [4,6,7]. Infection due to N. brasiliensis is rare compared with that due to other species, which generally results from direct traumatic inoculation into the skin and hematogenous spread from the primary location to the central nervous system where a brain abscess is formed.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nocardia species are aerobic, gram-positive, branching, and filamentous bacteria, and can be introduced into a host through inhalation. Nocardia infections comprise only 2% of all intracranial abscesses [4], but the mortality rate (31%) is greater than that for other types of infections (< 10%). Nocardia farcinica species are responsible for more than 80% of nocardial brain abscesses, and brain abscess caused by Nocardia brasiliensis species is rarely reported.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…Because no symptoms other than respiratory ones were observed in the present case, we did not perform cerebrospinal fluid examination or brain CT/MRI. However, care should be exercised because many infectious diseases of the central nervous system have been reported in pulmonary nocardiosis ( Flateau et al ., 2013 ; Kim et al ., 2015 ). N. mexicana was first described by Rodríguez-Nava et al .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2 In such cases, the mortality rate can reach 40% ~ 87%. 7 Hence, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination or brain CT/MRI should be performed in cases of pulmonary nocardiosis. In the present report, two patients presented with productive cough and bloody sputum.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%