Nocardiosis in anaemic patients given steroids

1 May 1961

journal article
research article
Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology

Vol. 14 (3) , 259-263
https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.14.3.259

Abstract

Two fatal cases of infection with Nocardia asteroides are described with necropsy findings in one. Both patients had been anaemic and had received steroid therapy. The bacteriological problems of species recognition in the genus Nocardia are considered and the results of infection in experimental animals described.

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