title: Pleuropulmonary and soft tissue Nocardia cyriacigeorgici infection in a patient with Behcet's disease.
abstract: Infections with Nocardia species are generally seen in immunocompromised subjects. In this report, we present a case of pleuropulmonary and skin Nocardia cyriacigeorgici infection in a male patient with Behcet's disease who used corticosteroids and immunosupressives for a long period of time. He died before the diagnosis of Nocardia infection was made.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Selcuk University, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya 42080, Turkey. arslan_ugur40@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ugur
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Arslan
authors.forename: Inci
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tuncer
authors.forename: Elif B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Uysal
authors.forename: Ramazan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Inci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D009617:Nocardia Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology*