Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /home/virtual/lib/view_data.php on line 81

Warning: fopen(upload/ip_log/ip_log_2024-03.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/virtual/lib/view_data.php on line 83

Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/virtual/lib/view_data.php on line 84
Two Cases of Nacardia asteroides Abscess
Skip Navigation
Skip to contents

J Pathol Transl Med : Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine

OPEN ACCESS
SEARCH
Search

Articles

Page Path
HOME > J Pathol Transl Med > Volume 13(2); 1979 > Article
Etc Two Cases of Nacardia asteroides Abscess
Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine 1979;13(2):129-134
DOI: https://doi.org/
Department of Clinical Pathology and Yonsei Cancer Center*, Yonsei University College of Medicine and Seikang Orthopedic Clinic**
  • 1,463 Views
  • 10 Download
  • 0 Crossref
  • 0 Scopus

Nocardia is a gram-positive, acid-fast bacillus causing various clinical infections mostly in compromised hosts. Two cultures of N. asteroides were obtained ; one from a back trunk abscess of a 37-year-old male with Hodgkin's disease and the other from a buttock abscess of a 12-year-old girl. The former case had a history of therapy with cytotoxic drugs and steroides and the latter with intramuscular injections for her synovitis. These were thought to be the possible predisposing factors of the infections. In both cases, the direct smear of pus revealed the characteristic morphology of Nocardia and the culture yielded, N. asteroides which were identified on the basis of cultural and biochemical characteristics.

Related articles

J Pathol Transl Med : Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine