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Pulmonary Nocardiosis due to Nocardia asiatica in an Immunocompetent Host

Sakina Okawa¹, Kazunari Sonobe^1,2, Yuzo Nakamura¹, Takahito Nei^2,3, Koichiro Kamio³ and Akihiko Gemma³

¹Department of Clinical Laboratory, Nippon Medical School
²Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Nippon Medical School
³Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nippon Medical School

We describe a case of pulmonary nocardiosis due to Nocardia asiatica in an immunocompent 64-year-old-female.
Wadowsky-Yee-Okuda-α-ketoglutarate (WYOα) agar, a selective media for Legionella species, was useful for the detection based on the growth-inhibition of normal oral flora and growth-promotion of Nocardia species.

J Nippon Med Sch 2015; 82: 159-162

Keywords
pulmonary nocardiosis, Nocardia asiatica, immunoconpetent host, WYOα agar

Correspondence to
Takahito Nei, MD, Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan
takahitonei@gmail.com

Received, August 22, 2014
Accepted, January 5, 2015