title: Endobronchial nocardiosis in an 11-year-old child.
abstract: Pulmonary nocardiosis is a rare infection and overwhelmingly limited to immunocompromised individuals. Endobronchial nocardiosis is even more rare. Nocardiosis is rarely seen in immunocompetent hosts mostly as cutaneous infection. Here we report an immunocompetent child with endobronchial nocardiosis presenting as nonresolving pneumonia and lung abscess. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported in the literature of endobronchial nocardiosis in a child.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey. erkancakir1@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Erkan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cakir
authors.forename: Nur
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Buyukpinarbasili
authors.forename: Sedat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ziyade
authors.forename: Hatice N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Selcuk-Duru
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bilgin
authors.forename: Ufuk
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Topuz
mesh_terms: D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009617:Nocardia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis
keywords: bronchoscopy; child; endobronchial lesion; nocardiosis