Pulmonary ray fungus is a relatively rare condition. In 1938 Cope4 was able to collect 200 cases of pleuro-pulmonary actinomycosis from the literature and Reiter17 in 1954, noted 47 cases of this disease described during the preceding ten years; of pulmonary nocardiosis only 47 cases have been described.20 It is reported that in large hospitals clinicians encounter three to five cases of pulmon...

Pulmonary nocardiosis is a well-described infection in immunocompromised patients; however, it is less well documented in patients with AIDS. The pulmonary manifestation in 21 HIV-positive patients who developed pulmonary infection with Nocardia asteroides is described. The radiographic picture included lobar or multilobar consolidation (52 percent [11/21]), solitary masses (24 percent [5/21]),...

Nocardiosis is a rare, mixed suppurative and granulomatous, bacterial infection that can affect various organs, but most commonly lungs. Clinical manifestation is usually uncharacteristic; can mimic fungal, parasitic and mycobacterial infections or malignancy. Presentation can be also similar to that of the other granulomatous diseases, among them sarcoidosis. We present an unusual case of diss...

We report the case of an 84-year-old male who was admitted to the hospital with persistent cough and dyspnea. An initial chest X-ray revealed pulmonary infiltrates. Nocardia asteroides was detected in sputum, and the patient was treated with antibiotics. However, his symptoms did not completely resolve. He was admitted multiple times, and his symptoms relapsed after every discharge. He was fina...

Background. Pulmonary nocardiosis (PN) is an uncommon infection often seen in immunocompromised patients. Definitive diagnosis depends on identification of the organism by culture in a patient with a clinical presentation suggestive of PN. As Nocardia can grow slowly and other infections can present similarly in the immunocompromised patient, we sought to find the performance of respiratory sam...

Sir, Nocardiosis is an uncommon but world-wide infection caused by several species of soil-borne aerobic bacteria belonging to the genus Nocardia (1). Nocardiosis can be divided into two broad categories: disseminated and cutaneous. Disseminated nocardiosis, which accounts for most occurrences of nocardiosis, is most commonly caused by N. asteroides, and typically affects immunocompromised host...