A Case of Pulmonary Nocardiosis

Chang, Se Ho; Lee, Jong Duk; Woo, Sung Kyung; Sim, Sang Gun; Cho, Joong Hyeon; Doh, Mon Hong; Whang, Young Sil; Kim, Hyoung Seob; Maeng, Kuk Young

doi:1990.37.2.211

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 37(2); 1990 > Article

Case report

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1990;37(2):211-215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1990.37.2.211 Published online June 1, 1990.

A Case of Pulmonary Nocardiosis

Se Ho Chang¹, Jong Duk Lee¹, Sung Kyung Woo¹, Sang Gun Sim¹, Joong Hyeon Cho¹, Mon Hong Doh¹, Young Sil Whang¹, Hyoung Seob Kim², Kuk Young Maeng²

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, College of Medicine, Chinju, Korea
²Department of Clinical Pathology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, College of Medicine, Chinju, Korea

폐 Nocardiosis 1예

장세호¹, 이종덕¹, 우성경¹, 심상군¹, 조중현¹, 도문홍¹, 황영실¹, 김형섭², 맹국영²

Abstract

Nocardiosis is a localized or disseminated infection caused by a soil-borne aerobic actinomycete which is gram-positve and weak acid-fast usually introduced through the respiratory tract. The pulmonary event in humans may be transient or subclinical or may provoke an acute or chronic bronchopulmonary process mimicking tuberculous and mycotic infection or malignancy. Nocardia l infection are not rare in the USA, but very rare in Korea . We have exprienced a case of pulmpnary nocardiosis associated with aspergillosis. The diagnosis was made by culture of the sputum and open lung biopsy specimens showing characteristic weak acid-fastness on modified Ziehl-Neelsen staining with branching hyphae on gram staining and histologic examination of open lung biopsy specimens. We report a case of pulmonary nocardiosis with the review of the relevant literatures.