Pulmonary nocardiosis and scrub typhus in an immunocompromised host
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Cytological diagnosis of pulmonary nocardiosis in an immunocompromised patient.
We report a case of pulmonary nocardiosis in an immunosuppressed patient having vasculitis who presented with fever, cough and chest pain. A suspicion of nocardiosis was made on auramine O staining of material procured by CT guided fine needle aspiration cytology right lung. Modified Ziehl-Neelsen staining was useful in confirming the diagnosis. The patient showed remarkable recovery after trea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Global Infectious Diseases
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0974-777X
DOI: 10.4103/jgid.jgid_105_17