Pulmonary nocardiosis in patients with connective tissue disease: A report of two cases

Nocardiosis in rheumatic patients: Case series and review of literature

“…For instance, two of our three patients received prednisone of 10 mg/day at the time of admission. Besides, nocardiosis has also been reported in patients given rituximab, etanercept, and abatacept 4–7 . For another, as shown in our laboratory data, two of our three patients had reduced absolute lymphocyte values, one of our three patients had reduced IgG, and one out of two patients had elevated CD4 + /CD8 + ratio.…”

A case of central nervous system nocardiosis in a patient with lupus treated with belimumab

“…Cases of nocardiosis have been reported in literature patients with SLE because of both their impaired autoimmunity and immunosuppressive drugs, including but not limited to high doses of intravenous methylprednisolone and prednisone, cyclophosphamide, azathioprine, and tacrolimus (3,4,7). Most incidents have pulmonary complications and rarely fatal CNS involvements (7).…”