Nocardia brasiliensis in Italy: A nine-year experience

Claudio Farina From the UO Microbiologia, AO ‘Ospedale San Carlo Borromeo’, Milano, Italy; Laboratorio di Analisi Chimico-cliniche e Microbiologia, Ospedale Mauriziano Umberto I di Torino, Torino, Italy; Laboratorio di Analisi e Microbiologia, Ospedale Civile San Salvatore, L'Aquila, Italy; Laboratorio di Analisi e Microbiologia, Nuovo Ospedale S.Agostino-Estense, Modena, Italy; Divisione di Medicina Interna ed Epatologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy; Unità di Medicina Infettivologica e dei Trapianti, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy; Groupe de Recherche ‘Bactéries pathogènes opportunistes et environnement’, UMR CNRS, Ecologie Microbienne, Laboratoire de Mycologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Lyon, France; Italian Coordinating Centre, ‘Epidemiological survey of nocardiosis and other aerobic Actinomycetes infections in Europe’ Working Group, European Confederation of Medical Mycology,Correspondence[email protected]

Laura Andrini Laboratorio di Analisi Chimico-cliniche e Microbiologia, Ospedale Mauriziano Umberto I di Torino, Torino, Italy

Gianfranco Bruno Laboratorio di Analisi e Microbiologia, Ospedale Civile San Salvatore, L'Aquila, Italy

Mario Sarti Laboratorio di Analisi e Microbiologia, Nuovo Ospedale S.Agostino-Estense, Modena, Italy

Marie Françoise Tripodi Divisione di Medicina Interna ed Epatologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Riccardo Utili Unità di Medicina Infettivologica e dei Trapianti, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Patrick Boiron Groupe de Recherche ‘Bactéries pathogènes opportunistes et environnement’, UMR CNRS, Ecologie Microbienne, Laboratoire de Mycologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Lyon, France; Italian Coordinating Centre, ‘Epidemiological survey of nocardiosis and other aerobic Actinomycetes infections in Europe’ Working Group, European Confederation of Medical Mycology,; European Convenor Laboratory, ‘Epidemiological survey of nocardiosis and other aerobic Actinomycetes infections in Europe’ Working Group, European Confederation of Medical Mycology,

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Abstract

In the past, no case reports concerning N. brasiliensis infections were published from Italy. We now report 4 cases observed during 1998–2006 in 4 Italian patients, 1 immunosuppressed and 3 immunocompetent.

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