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| Year : 2014 | Volume
: 32
| Issue : 1 | Page : 79-81 |
Mixed pulmonary infection in an immunocompromised patient: A rare case report
S Qureshi1, A Pandey1, TR Sirohi2, SR Verma3, V Sardana1, C Agrawal1, AK Asthana1, M Madan1
1 Department of Microbiology, Subharti Medical College, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Medicine, Subharti Medical College, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
3 Department of Radiology, Subharti Medical College, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
A Pandey
Department of Microbiology, Subharti Medical College, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.124330
Patients who are immunocompromised are predisposed to a variety of common and uncommon pulmonary infections. We report a case of mixed pulmonary infection by drug resistant tuberculosis with a nocardiosis in a 49-year-old man who was a known case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, on prolonged corticosteroid use with diabetes mellitus. Chronic use of corticosteroids is a predisposing factor for opportunistic infections, such as nocardiosis or tuberculosis. Since such a mixed infection is rare, maybe a combined approach to therapy early in the course of disease would be effective in such cases.
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