title: Pulmonary nocardiosis in an immunocompetent patient with cystic fibrosis.
abstract: Nocardia spp. are bacteria of low virulence that cause infection classically in immunocompromised hosts with the lungs as the primary site of infection in the majority of cases. Patients with cystic fibrosis have pulmonary disease characterized by frequent and progressive bacterial infections. Reports of Nocardia spp. isolation in CF are rare in the literature and may represent colonization or active infection, the significance and optimal treatment of which are unknown. We report the second case to date of Nocardia transvalensis pulmonary infection in an immunocompetent patient with CF and the first in a child under the age of eighteen.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, 291 Campus Drive, Li Ka Shing Building, Stanford, CA 94305-5101, USA.
authors.forename: Lucy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schoen
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Children's Hospital, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Santoro
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Children's Hospital, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Milla
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Children's Hospital, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
authors.forename: Sumit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhargava