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Mycetoma caused by Nocardia transvalensis.
Department of Microbiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Nocardia transvalensis can be a rare cause of actinomycotic mycetoma. A 40 year old man presented with his right arm showing multiple discharging sinuses, which had been present for four years. N transvalensis was isolated from a biopsy specimen. No other underlying disease was detected. The patient was successfully managed with surgical excision of the lesion and treatment with co-trimoxazole. This is the first case of N transvalensis infection to be reported from the Indian subcontinent as far as is known.
PMID: 8132817 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
PMCID: PMC501765
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Cited by 2 PubMed Central articles
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Nocardia arthritidis sp. nov., a new pathogen isolated from a patient with rheumatoid arthritis in Japan.
Kageyama A, Torikoe K, Iwamoto M, Masuyama J, Shibuya Y, Okazaki H, Yazawa K, Minota S, Kroppenstedt RM, Mikami Y.
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Recognition of a Nocardia transvalensis complex by resistance to aminoglycosides, including amikacin, and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis.
Wilson RW, Steingrube VA, Brown BA, Blacklock Z, Jost KC Jr, McNabb A, Colby WD, Biehle JR, Gibson JL, Wallace RJ Jr.
J Clin Microbiol. 1997 Sep; 35(9):2235-42.
[J Clin Microbiol. 1997]