TY - JOUR ID - 40564 TI - First Report of the Isolation of Nocardia thailandica from the Bronchoalveolar Lavage of a Patient in Iran JO - Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences JA - IJMS LA - en SN - 0253-0716 AU - Bourbour, Samaneh AU - Keikha, Masoud AU - Faghri, Jamshid AD - Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 43 IS - 5 SP - 560 EP - 563 KW - Nocardia KW - Bronchoalveolar lavage KW - infection DO - 10.30476/ijms.2018.40564 N2 - Nocardiae are Gram-positive, filamentous, aerobic, relatively slow-growing, and weakly acid-fast bacteria which cause nocardiosis in humans. We describe a 53-year-old patient with chronic bronchitis referred to Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan. A bronchial washing sample was taken from the patient. A Nocardia-like microorganism was detected in microscopic evaluation. Based on the phenotypic and 16S rRNA gene sequencing, the isolate was identified as Nocardia thailandica. The patient was treated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and linezolid. This is the first report of the isolation of Nocardia thailandica from Iran. UR - https://ijms.sums.ac.ir/article_40564.html L1 - https://ijms.sums.ac.ir/article_40564_af57568f7c63952ed67aeb05a54b06ac.pdf ER -