Fatal Nocardia pulmonary infection in a child with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1088-1089

  Zwerski, Sheryl ^a   Witebsky, Frank G ^b   Conville, Patricia S ^b   Gill, Vee J ^b   Freifeld, Alison G ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Microbiology Service   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human immunodeficiency virus infection; Lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis; Nocardia; Opportunistic infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LAMIVUDINE; PREDNISONE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CHILD; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030665902     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199711000-00016     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Connor EW, Andiman WA. Lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis in pediatric AIDS. In: Pizzo PA, Wilfert CA, eds. Pediatric AIDS: the challenge of HIV infection in infants, children and adolescents. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1994.
2. Scott GB, Hutto C, Markuch RW, et al. Survival in children with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. N Engl J Med 1989;321:1971-6.
3. McNeil MM, Brown JM. The medically important actinomycetes: epidemiology and microbiology. Clin Microbiol Rev 1994;3:357-410.
4. Lerner P. Nocardiosis. Clin Infect Dis 1997;22:891-905.
5. Edwards U, Rogall T, Blöcker H, Emde M, Böttger EC. Isolation and direct complete nucleotide determination of entire genes: characterization of a gene coding for 16S ribosomal RNA. Nucleic Acids Res 1989;17:7843-53.
6. Steingrube VA, Brown BA, Gibson JL, et al. DNA amplification and restriction endonuclease analysis for differentiation of 12 species and taxa of Nocardia, including recognition of four new taxa within the Nocardia asteroides complex. J Clin Microbiol 1995;33:3096-101.
7. Brown BA, Wallace RJ Jr. Broth microdilution MIC test for Nocardia spp. In: Isenberg HD, ed. Clinical microbiology procedures handbook. Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology, 1994:Sect. 5.12.1-5.12.7.
8. Uttamchandani RB, Daikos GL, Reyes RR, et al. Nocardiosis in 30 patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection: clinical features and outcomes. Clin Infect Dis 1994;18:348-53.
9. McNeil MM, Brown JM. Infections due to Nocardia transvalensis: clinical spectrum and antimicrobial therapy. Clin Infect Dis 1992;15:453-63.