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PLoS ONE· 2014Q1

Clinical and Radiographic Characteristics of Pulmonary Nocardiosis: Clues to Earlier Diagnosis

Junjun Chen, Hua Zhou, Panfeng Xu, Pei Zhang et al.

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Pulmonary nocardiosis (PN) in immunocompromised patients (64.71% on corticosteroids, 29.41% with diabetes) often presents as nodules/masses (82.35%) and consolidations (58.82%), with cavitation developing within two weeks, but diagnosis takes a median of 25 days.

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Field: Microbiology

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