title: Nocardia mikamii a Novel Species Causing Disseminated Nocardiosis: A Literature Review of Disseminated Nocardiosis.
abstract: Nocardia is an uncommon Gram-positive organism. It typically appears as delicate filamentous Gram-positive branching rods. In the United States it was estimated to be approximately 500 to 1000 new cases per year. The organism causes disease in immunocompromised individuals with pulmonary infection representing the most common site of infection. Nocardia mikamii has been a recently isolated pathogen and not many cases of disseminated infection with this organism has been reported in the literature; we present a case of disseminated nocardiosis (mikamii sp.) in an immunocompromised patient. We also present a literature review on nocardiosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73117, USA.
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-9969-4222
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73117, USA.
authors.forename: Mohammed Muqeet
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Adnan
authors.affiliation: Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi 74200, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Najmi
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9309-6659
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shahbaz
authors.affiliation: Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi 74200, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-1445-3986
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamza
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
authors.forename: Sufyan Abdul
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Mujeeb