title: Primary cutaneous nocardiosis in a husband and wife.
abstract: A 62-year-old woman suffered from acute purulent skin disease with multiple subcutaneous abscesses. At the same time, her 65-year-old husband presented with multiple subcutaneous nodules along the lymphatic vessels of his right arm. Both had a history of a minor scratch by a thorn of a bush at the site of infection. Nocardia was identified as causative bacterium from the woman's lesions. Therefore the rare phenomenon of 2 different forms of acute primary cutaneous nocardiosis after simultaneous infection, lymphocutaneous infection, and superficial skin infection was diagnosed.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Haut- und geschlechtskrankheitenm, University of Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Angelika
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hans-Jürgen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Uwe-Frithjof
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009617:Nocardia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000382:microbiology