Indian Journal of Microbiology Research
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 4

Pulmonary Nocardiosis in Immunocompetent Female

  • Author:
  • Nandini Chatterjee1,, Mohua Bose2, Suvajit Das3, Sudipta Kumar Dey3, Kaushik Mukhopadhyay4, Chandan Chatterjee5
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 246 to 248

1Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Murshidabad Medical College

2Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, Murshidabad Medical College

3Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, ESI-PGIMSR MC

4Tutor, Pharmacology, ESI-PGIMSR MC

5Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, ESI-PGIMSR MC

*Corresponding Author: E-mail: rivuc2006@gmail.com

Online published on 4 February, 2016.

Abstract

Pulmonary nocardiosis, though a well recognized entity, is often missed due to its clinicoradiological similarities with tuberculosis. We present the case of an immunocompetent young girl of eighteen years with fever cough and weight loss, who was later diagnosed to be suffering from Pulmonary nocardiosis.

Keywords

Nocardiosis, Lung, Immunity, Fever, Hemoptysis