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Nocardia infection in kidney transplant recipients: case report and analysis of 66 published cases
Author(s) -
Yu X.,
Han F.,
Wu J.,
He Q.,
Peng W.,
Wang Y.,
Huang H.,
Li H.,
Wang R.,
Chen J.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
transplant infectious disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1399-3062
pISSN - 1398-2273
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00607.x
Subject(s) - nocardiosis , medicine , nocardia , kidney transplantation , kidney transplant , pulmonary infection , kidney , transplantation , dermatology , genetics , bacteria , biology
X. Yu, F. Han, J. Wu, Q. He, W. Peng, Y. Wang, H. Huang, H. Li, R. Wang, J. Chen. Nocardia infection in kidney transplant recipients: case report and analysis of 66 published cases.
Transpl Infect Dis 2011: 13: 385–391. All rights reserved Abstract: Nocardiosis is a rare but life‐threatening opportunistic infection, especially in immune compromised patients, including kidney transplant recipients. Primary pulmonary infection is the most common clinical pattern, and can easily result in disseminated Nocardia infection if treatment therapy is not adequate at the beginning. In this article, we report a new case of disseminated nocardiosis (lungs, skin, and pericardium) after renal allograft transplantation. We also review the English literature published from 1980 to 2010 and analyze the clinical characteristics of nocardiosis in kidney transplant recipients.