Disseminated nocardiosis with psoas abscess in a patient with AIDS: first reported case.
Psoas muscle abscess is an uncommon infection that have been diagnosed increasingly in the last years. We present a case of a patient with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection who developed a disseminated infection due to Nocardia asteroides sensu stricto type VI with psoas abscess. To our knowledge no other cases of Nocardia psoas abscess in the setting of HIV infection have been reported in the literature.
Corti
Marcelo
M
Division of HIV/AIDS Disease, F.J. Muñiz Infectious Diseases Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Solari
Rubén
R
De Carolis
Luis
L
Cangelos
Diana
D
Bianchi
Mario
M
Negroni
Ricardo
R
D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D000328:Adult; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009617:Nocardia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D009616:Nocardia asteroides / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016659:Psoas Abscess / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents