Nocardiosis Cases and Risk Factors for Infection in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Abstract

Introduction: Nocardiosis is an opportunistic infectious disease that involves the lungs, brain, eyes and skin and tends to occur in patients using immunosuppressive drugs (especially affecting cellular immunity) or chemotherapeutics, also in patients with diabetes mellitus, AIDS, lymphoreticular malignancies, solid cancers and architectural lung diseases such as bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis. Here, it was aimed to present the clinical features and the risk factors of nocardiosis cases followed in a tertiary care hospital.