Successful treatment of a pancreatic Nocardia asteroides abscess with amikacin and surgical drainage
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 29 (1) , 150-151
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.29.1.150
Abstract
A retroperitoneal Nocardia asteroides abscess was diagnosed in a 76-year-old patient. Trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole treatment for 6.5 weeks failed after surgical drainage of the abscess, and superinfection occurred. Subsequent treatment with amikacin resulted in a cure after 7 weeks. Amikacin might significantly shorten the duration of treatment in disseminated nocardiosis.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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