Pulmonary nocardiosis caused by Nocardia concava with a literature review

Tatsuro Hirayama; Takahiro Takazono; Yoshiro Horai; Masato Tashiro; Tomomi Saijo; Kosuke Kosai; Yoshitomo Morinaga; Shintaro Kurihara; Shigeki Nakamura; Yoshifumi Imamura; Taiga Miyazaki; Misuzu Tsukamoto; Koichi Izumikawa; Katsunori Yanagihara; Atsushi Kawakami; Shigeru Kohno

doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.55.6228

Pulmonary nocardiosis caused by Nocardia concava with a literature review

Tatsuro Hirayama, Takahiro Takazono^*, Yoshiro Horai, Masato Tashiro, Tomomi Saijo, Kosuke Kosai, Yoshitomo Morinaga, Shintaro Kurihara, Shigeki Nakamura, Yoshifumi Imamura, Taiga Miyazaki, Misuzu Tsukamoto, Koichi Izumikawa, Katsunori Yanagihara, Atsushi Kawakami, Shigeru Kohno

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Abstract

A 68-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with anorexia and leg pain. He was diagnosed with ANCA-associated vasculitis through a renal biopsy. Immunosuppression with two courses of steroid pulse therapies and intravenous cyclophosphamide followed by oral prednisolone at 40 mg/day were administered. About one month after starting the immunosuppression therapy, he complained of hemosputum. Chest computed tomography showed a cavitary lesion in the lung. Cultures from his sputum showed Nocardia species, and we were able to identify the species as N. concava using a 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Only three detailed reports of N. concava infection have so far been published worldwide.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1213-1217
Number of pages	5
Journal	Internal Medicine
Volume	55
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.55.6228
State	Published - 2016

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Nocardia concava
Pulmonary nocardiosis
Review

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Hirayama, T., Takazono, T., Horai, Y., Tashiro, M., Saijo, T., Kosai, K., Morinaga, Y., Kurihara, S., Nakamura, S., Imamura, Y., Miyazaki, T., Tsukamoto, M., Izumikawa, K., Yanagihara, K., Kawakami, A., & Kohno, S. (2016). Pulmonary nocardiosis caused by Nocardia concava with a literature review. Internal Medicine, 55(9), 1213-1217. https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.55.6228

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