Systemic Nocardiosis In A Diabetic Patient

Pulmonary nocardiosis is an important opportunistic infection that is seen in patients with immunosuppresion. This infection which is caused by nocardia spesies can be observed in acute, subacute or chronic forms. The infection rarely involves extrothorasic sites as brain and subcutaneus tissue. Due to the difficulties in the diagnosis, mortality of this infection is high although it has a spesific treatment. A sistemic nocardiosis case presented with high fever and recurrent pneumonia without any immunsupresive disease other then diabetes was presented here with the rewiew of literature due to difficulties in making a diagnosis and rare occurance in our country.