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Pulmonary nocardiosis

Nocardiose pulmonar

Category

Definition

This is a pulmonary infectious disease affecting either the lungs (pulmonary nocardiosis) or the whole body (systemic nocardiosis). It is due to infection by bacterium of the genus Nocardia, most commonly Nocardia asteroides or Nocardia brasiliensis.

Index Terms

Pulmonary nocardiosisnocardiosis of lunglung nocardiosisnocardial pneumoniapneumonia with nocardiasisnocardiosis pneumoniapneumonia due to nocardiosisPneumonia in nocardiosis