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Title: | Not everything acid-fast is Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A case of Nocardia |
Authors: | Bhagat, K. Ibrahim, H. Naik, K. |
Keywords: | Nocardial infections Mycobacterium tuberculosis Motor convulsion |
Issue Date: | 1999 |
Publisher: | University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences |
Citation: | Bhagat, K., Ibrahim, H., & Naik, K. (1999). Not everything acid-fast is Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A case of Nocardia. Central African Journal of Medicine, 45 (8), 217-219. |
Abstract: | We report a case of a 47 year old woman who presented with a history of motor convulsions and a three month history of an increasingly painful and progressively enlarging mass on the right side of her back. Neurological examination revealed generalised wasting and a right sided hemiplegia. A biopsy of the mass was taken for microbiology which reported growing branching gram positive rods after three days of incubation. A mycological diagnosis of Nocardia asteroides was made. An MRI scan revealed extensive infiltration of the fungal mass into extending from the base of the skull to fifth cervical vertebra. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10646/3513 |
ISSN: | 0008-9176 |
Appears in Collections: | Department of Radiology Staff Publications |
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