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Successful medical treatment of multiple brain abscesses due to Nocardia farcinica in a paediatric renal transplant recipient.

Viganò SM, Edefonti A, Ferraresso M, Ranzi ML, Grossi P, Righini A, Rusconi R, Santambrogio L, Ghio L

ICP Pediatric Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Milan, Italy.

Brain abscesses caused by Nocardia are rare, but it is very important to detect and treat them early because the associated mortality is 3 times higher than that associated with other bacterial brain abscesses. This infection is prevalent among adults on long-term immunosuppressive therapy; we report the case of a male kidney transplant recipient aged 12.7 years who developed early multiple Nocardia-induced brain abscesses that were successfully treated with linezolid, a novel antibiotic therapy.

Published 8 July 2005 in Pediatr Nephrol, 20(8): 1186-8.
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