Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2020)
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.
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