PULMONARY NOCARDIOSIS MISDIAGNOSED AS TUBERCULOSIS IN AN IMMUNO COMPETENT HOST
*Nitesh Kanwar and Poonam Kanwar
ABSTRACT
Pulmonary nocardiosis is an opportunistic infection in an immunocompromised patient; however, often neglected in the immunocompetent patient from the diagnosis considerations. Nocardiosis is a rare bacterial infection that may lead to a severe disease. These infections are rare among normal population and are showing an increasing trend worldwide. Most of these patients present with nonspecific clinical features such as fever, productive cough, and exertional dyspnoea. Nocardiosis is rarely clinically suspected and often diagnosed very late in the course of disease resulting in high mortality. A similar observation was made in one of our case where the patient was being treated on the lines of tuberculosis, and in the end he was diagnosed with disseminated nocardiosis.
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