BACKGROUND Primary cutaneous nocardiosis is an uncommon entity. It usually occurs among immunocompetent but occupationally predisposed individuals. AIM To study clinical profile of patients with primary cutaneous nocardiosis in a tertiary care hospital and to review the literature. METHODS The records of 10 cases of primary cutaneous nocardiosis were analyzed for clinical pattern, site of i...

Pulmonary nocardiosis has been described in a four-month-old male buffalo calf (Bubalus bubalis) with a history of respiratory distress lasting ten days. Microscopic examination of tissue imprints from the infected lungs revealed numerous Gram-positive, acid-fast, fine, branched, filamentous organisms which were morphologically identical with those of Nocardia spp. Cultures of pneumonic lung sp...

Disseminated nocardiosis is a well-described infection occurring in immunosuppressed individuals. Of the several species of Nocardia, Nocardia farcinica is being increasingly recognized as a pathogen capable of causing severe systemic disease. Described here is a case of disseminated nocardiosis with involvement of the brain, eyes, lymph nodes, and lung with biopsy-proven N. farcinica, with a d...

Nocardiosis is an acute, subacute or chronic bacterial infection caused by a group of aerobic, gram positive and weakly acid fast species of genus Nocardia. Primary Cutaneous Nocardiosis (PCN) is relatively uncommon disease and is usually seen in immunocompetent persons. We report a case of primary cutaneous nocardiosis in a known case of lepromatous leprosy, syphilis and HIV patient who presen...

Nocardiosis is a rare infection that in more frequent in patients with systemic lupus Erythematosus and its clinical manifestations are nonspecific.while concurrent treatment by corticosteroids is an independent risk factor for nocardiosis it increases both diagnostic and mangement problems.this article presents a 35 years old woman who has systemic lupus Erythematosus.she was hospitalized due ...