PULMONARY AND CUTANEOUS NOCARDIOSIS - SIGNIFICANCE OF LABORATORY ISOLATION OF NOCARDIA

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Abstract
Six cases of pulmonary and subcutaneous nocardiosis are presented, treatment with sulfadiazine having been sucessful in 3 cases. Antimicrobial drugs and antituberculous chemotherapy resulted in no clinical response. Pulmonary sarcoidosis, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, carcinoma of the lung, pulmonary tuberculosis, and pulmonary Hodgkin''s disease were also present. Nocardiae were not found as saprophytes in the human respiratory tract and were rare as laboratory contaminants. When nocardiae were isolated, active disease was almost always present.

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