Intracranial Nocardia recurrence during fluorinated quinolones therapy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

Nocardia infection is a well-recognized complication in renal transplant recipients and other immunocompromised hosts. It is mostly a primary pulmonary infection, which can disseminate to other organs in half of the cases. Nocardiosis is a life-threatening infection. Therefore, an efficient long-lasting treatment must be rapidly administered. We report 1 case of disseminated nocardiosis with pulmonary involvement, brain lesions, and bone lesions in a renal transplant patient, who was treated with stereotactic aspiration in association with high dose of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) and imipenem, changed, after 3 weeks to moxifloxacin. First, clinical manifestations decreased after surgical drainage and combination therapy with the 2 antimicrobial agents, but later the patient developed a recurrence of brain lesions during treatment with quinolones. Consequently, the patient was again treated with TMP/SMX and imipenem, after which the patient recovered. It is surprising that moxifloxacin was efficient in vitro and the antimicrobial concentration in the central nervous system was high, yet the nocardial abscess recurred under this therapy. Copyright © Blackwell Munksgaard 2006.

Publication Title

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volume

8

Issue

3

First Page

161

Last Page

165

Comments

This article was published in Transplant Infectious Disease, Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 161-165.

The published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3062.2006.00130.x.

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