TY - JOUR JF - mdrsjrns JO - IEM VL - 3 IS - 4 PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/12/01 TI - Disseminated Nocardia farcinica infection in a Patient with Pneumoconiosis TT - N2 - Background: Nocardia as a Gram-positive bacillus with a microscopic appearance of branching hyphae can produce considerable disease in an appropriable host. N. facinica is a member of genus Nocardia that is potentially life threatening; therefore, therapy of N. farcinica infection remains difficult. Case presentation: This study is a case report of disseminated N. farcinica infection in a 64-year-old man with a history of pneumoconiosis with brain, lung, and skin involvement in Labbafi Nejad hospital, Tehran, IR Iran in November 2013 with a discussion about diagnosis and management of this particular patient. Conclusion: Due to the involvement of brain, triple therapy was started with meropenem, amikacin, and linezolid. SP - 143 EP - 146 AU - Aghajanpour, soudabej AU - Abolghasemi, sara AU - Dabiri, Hossein AU - Tehrani, Shabnam AU - Divsalar, Farshad AD - Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,Iran. KW - pneumoconiosis KW - Nocardias spp KW - brain abscess UR - http://iem.modares.ac.ir/article-4-10521-en.html ER -