La pleurésie purulente à Nocardia asteroides est rare. Elle survient le plus souvent sur un terrain d'immunodépression. Nous rapportons une observation d'une pleurésie à Nocardia asteroides chez une patiente âgée de 60 ans, chez qui nous avons découvert un diabète. A travers ce travail les auteurs soulignent l'intérêt de la multiplication de prélèvements, de rechercher ce germe sur terrain d'im...

  Actinnomycetoma is a relatively rare chronic pustular infection. Thirty four cases have been reported from various geographic locations in  Iran. In this case report, a fifty year old male patient with Actinomycotic mycetoma lesions in his right foot was studied. Studies of the direct smear and culturing of the specimens ( both pus and & exudate, collected from the lesions), revealed that No...

Nocardia infection occurs primarily among patients with deficient cell-mediated immunity. The portal of entry in the majority of patients with Nocardia infection is pulmonary origin. Central venous catheter-associated bacteremia caused by Nocardia species is very rare, and the optimal management for these situations was indeterminate. Most patients were cured after discontinuation of central ve...

Pulmonary cavities are caused by tissue necrosis that leads to the exclusion of a portion of the pulmonary parenchyma via the bronchial tree. In general, the differential diagnosis of pneumonitis with cavitations includes infectious and noninfectious causes (Table 1). The infectious causes include bacteria such as community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Actinomyces or ...

Physalis alkekengi L. has been used as anti-infective plant in Iranian traditional medicine. To investigate antifungal activity of the plant extract, wild plant was collected and identified and the aerial parts were air dried and powdered subsequently macerated in solvent. Extracts were concentrated by rotary evaporator at 60 C under reduced pressure. Aqueous, ethanol and methanol extracts were...

fungal involvement of the paranasal sinuses is frequently observed in the immunocompromised host and it can become lifethreatening if it is not diagnosed. definitive diagnosis is made by tissue biopsy and culture. in this study biopsy materials of maxillary, ethmoidal and frontal sinuses of 60 patients with clinical manifestation of sinusitis and no response to medical therapy were assessed by ...