Empyema thoracis due to Nocardia otitidiscaviarum
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Empyema thoracis due to Nocardia otitidiscaviarum.
We read with interest the article on pulmonary nocardiosis in southern Taiwan by Chen et al. In their study, eight of the 20 patients with pulmonary nocardiosis had pleural effusion and three of these patients had empyema thoraces. Among these three nocardial empyema cases, the authors reported a 61-year-old man with diabetes mellitus and chronic liver disease suffering from an acute course of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1684-1182
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmii.2014.05.004