Nocardia arthritidis as a cause of disseminated nocardiosis in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

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• 作者：Amity L. Roberts^c ; ^{amity.roberts@jefferson.edu} ; Rebecca M. Davidson^d ; ^{davidsonr@njhealth.org} ; Alison G. Freifeld^b ; ^{afreifeld@unmc.edu} ; Peter C. Iwen^a ; ^{piwen@unmc.edu}
• 关键词：Nocardiosis ; Nocardia ; Arthritidis ; Disseminated
• 刊名：IDCases
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：6
• 期：Complete
• 页码：68-71
• 全文大小：387 K
• 卷排序：6

文摘

A case of disseminated nocardiosis caused by Nocardia arthritidis in an immunocompromised patient with a history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis is presented. This report highlights the use for multilocus sequence typing (MLST) in addition to single gene molecular sequencing to identify rare Nocardia species.