NOCARDIOSIS: THREE CASE REPORTS
Authors: I L BERNSTEIN, J E COOK, H PLOTNICK, F J TENCZAR
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1952)

Article1 March 1952NOCARDIOSIS: THREE CASE REPORTSI. L. BERNSTEIN, M.D., J. E. COOK, M.D., F.A.C.P., H. PLOTNICK, M.D., F. J. TENCZAR, M.D.I. L. BERNSTEIN, M.D., J. E. COOK, M.D., F.A.C.P., H. PLOTNICK, M.D., F. J. TENCZAR, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-36-3-852 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptINTRODUCTIONNocardiosis is an acute or chronic infectious disease of granulomatous or suppurative nature, caused by an aerobic, gram-positive, inconstantly acid-fast species of the family Actinomycetaceae. Nocardia asteroides is the organism most frequently isolated. The authors wish to add three cases to the 43 recorded in the literature.REVIEW OF THE LITERATUREIn 1888 Nocard1isolated aerobic Actinomyces from bovine farcy, and two years later Eppinger2reported a case in which similar organisms were cultured from a brain abscess. 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StraussKligmanPillsbury REAMDM: Chemotherapy of actinomycosis and nocardiosis, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 63: 441, 1951. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication July 28, 1951.From the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, The Jewish Hospital, and the Department of Pathology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, and the Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio.†The inclusion of this case in this group is questioned because of the difference in clinical course and the wide variety of etiologic agents isolated. 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