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45: A Disrespectful Bug

Febrile

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Nocardia - What to Do if You Have a CNS Symptoms?

The patient has a disseminated process, likely disseminated nocardia because this involvement is more than two sites. This can be life threatening with a high mortality rate, mortality as high as 20%. So we would need to act fast. The first line of treatment for nocardia like the backbone has to be a self-wannomite like spectrum. If it is just cutaneous, you can get away with monotherapy with backroom. But even if patients are intolerant to backroom, consider desitensization after that. You can try an epanem and loneselet, which has proven to be effective multiple times. And I would say backroom,

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