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TRANSPLANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 385-391Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00607.x
Keywords
aerobic Actinomycetes; Nocardia; kidney transplantation; clinical characteristics; cotrimoxazole
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- National Natural Science Foundation of People's Republic of China [30801148]
- Key Projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program [2008BAI60B04]
- Zhejiang Science and Technology Department [2008C13026-2]
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Nocardiosis is a rare but life-threatening opportunistic infection, especially in immune compromised patients, including kidney transplant recipients. Primary pulmonary infection is the most common clinical pattern, and can easily result in disseminated Nocardia infection if treatment therapy is not adequate at the beginning. In this article, we report a new case of disseminated nocardiosis (lungs, skin, and pericardium) after renal allograft transplantation. We also review the English literature published from 1980 to 2010 and analyze the clinical characteristics of nocardiosis in kidney transplant recipients.
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