Nocardia Infection
Alternate Names : Nocardiosis
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Nocardia Infection Symptoms & Signs
Symptoms vary and depend on the organs involved.
- Pulmonary (lung involvement):
- fevers
- night sweats
- weight loss
- coughing blood
- chest pain upon breathing (may occur suddenly or slowly)
- Brain (cerebral nocardiosis):
- fever
- headache
- loss of neurological function (may be seen, depending the part of the brain affected)
- Some individuals may have no symptoms.
- Skin:
- ulcers and/or nodules with infection sometimes tracking along lymph node chains
- may become chronically infected (mycetoma) and develop draining tracts
- can progress down to muscle and bone
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