Pulmonary Nocardia ignorata Infection in Gardener, Iran, 2017

Abstract

Nocardia ignorata, which was first described in 2001, is a rare human pathogen. We report a case of pulmonary nocardiosis caused by this bacterium in a 55-year-old man from Iran. The patient, a gardener, had frequent exposure to soil and may have acquired the infection from that source.

Keywords

• Actinomycetales
• Nocardiaceae
• emerging communicable diseases
• Nocardia ignorata
• Iran
• Nocardia infections