Mahat Jagat B, Hussien Siham, Negassa Rajan M, Reddy Yash, Ayele Girma M, Michael Miriam B
Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
Internal Medicine, University of Maryland Midtown Campus, Baltimore, USA.
Cureus. 2022 Jul 19;14(7):e27039. doi: 10.7759/cureus.27039. eCollection 2022 Jul.
Nocardiosis is generally regarded as an opportunistic infection that can present as a cutaneous, pulmonary, or disseminated disease based on host immunity status. Pulmonary nocardiosis is typically seen in immunocompromised patients; however, it can rarely be present in immunocompetent patients. We present a rare case of an immunocompetent patient who was thought to have a lung malignancy but was found to have pulmonary nocardiosis upon further investigation.
诺卡菌病通常被视为一种机会性感染，根据宿主免疫状态，可表现为皮肤、肺部或播散性疾病。肺诺卡菌病通常见于免疫功能低下的患者；然而，它在免疫功能正常的患者中很少出现。我们报告一例罕见病例，一名免疫功能正常的患者最初被认为患有肺部恶性肿瘤，但进一步检查发现患有肺诺卡菌病。
