Intractable cerebral Nocardia mexicana in a GvHD patient successfully treated with linezolid

Bone Marrow Transplant. 2017 Oct;52(10):1476-1478. doi: 10.1038/bmt.2017.167. Epub 2017 Aug 7.

Authors

A Majeed¹, A Mushtaq², T Zangeneh¹, R E Ramahi¹, S Batool², H Khan², A Latif², V Kapoor², F Anwer³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
² Division of Hematology Oncology, Blood and Marrow Transplantation, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

PMID: 28783142
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2017.167

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Allografts
Brain Diseases / drug therapy*
Brain Diseases / etiology
Brain Diseases / microbiology
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation*
Humans
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / therapy*
Linezolid / administration & dosage*
Male
Middle Aged
Nocardia Infections / drug therapy*
Nocardia Infections / etiology
Nocardia*

Substances

Linezolid

Grants and funding

P30 CA023074/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States