Nocardiosis Cases and Risk Factors for Infection in a Tertiary Care Hospital

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Basaran S., Yilmaz E., Yavuz S. S., Cagatay A., Oncul O., Ozsut H., ...Daha Fazla

FLORA INFEKSIYON HASTALIKLARI VE KLINIK MIKROBIYOLOJI DERGISI, cilt.26, sa.2, ss.285-294, 2021 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 26 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5578/flora.20219808
  • Dergi Adı: FLORA INFEKSIYON HASTALIKLARI VE KLINIK MIKROBIYOLOJI DERGISI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.285-294
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Nocardia, Temozolomide, Risk factors, TEMOZOLOMIDE, TOXICITY
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Introduction: Nocardiosis is an opportunistic infectious disease that involves the lungs, brain, eyes and skin and tends to occur in patients using immunosuppressive drugs (especially affecting cellular immunity) or chemotherapeutics, also in patients with diabetes mellitus, AIDS, lymphoreticular malignancies, solid cancers and architectural lung diseases such as bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis. Here, it was aimed to present the clinical features and the risk factors of nocardiosis cases followed in a tertiary care hospital.