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KMID : 0357919790130020129
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Korean Journal of Pathology
1979 Volume.13 No. 2 p.129 ~ p.136
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Two Cases of Nacardia asteroides Abscess
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안용모/Yong Mo Ahn
정윤섭/이삼열/김병수/이희수/Yunsop Chong/Samuel Y. Lee/Byung Soo Kim/Hee Soo Rhee
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Abstract
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Nocardia is a gram-positive, acid-fast bacillus causing various clinical infections
mostly in compromised hosts. Two cultures of N. asteroides were obtained ; one from a
back trunk abscess of a 37-year-old male with Hodgkin's disease and the other from a
buttock abscess of a 12-year-old girl. The former case had a history of therapy with
cytotoxic drugs and steroides and the latter with intramuscular injections for her
synovitis. These were thought to be the possible predisposing factors of the infections.
In both cases, the direct smear of pus revealed the characteristic morphology of
Nocardia and the culture yielded, N. asteroides which were identified on the basis of
cultural and biochemical characteristics.
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