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Cervicofacial Nocardiosis in Children

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Nocardiosis is a suppurative and granulomatous infectious disease in animals and humans caused by Nocardia spp. [1, 2]. Nocardia species are found extensively in soil, organic matter, and aquatic habitats throughout the world. Considered an opportunistic infection, Nocardia spp. can cause both local and disseminated disease in children and adults, primarily occurring in immunosuppressed patients or after trauma [1, 3, 4].

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  1. Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Gaziantep Cengiz Gökçek Maternity and Children’s Hospital, Gaziantep, Turkey

    Ayşe Büyükçam

  2. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

    Emin Sami Arısoy

  3. Section of Academic General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, and Section of International and Destination Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Armando G. Correa

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey

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  2. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

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  3. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey

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Büyükçam, A., Arısoy, E.S., Correa, A.G. (2022). Cervicofacial Nocardiosis in Children. In: Cingi, C., Arısoy, E.S., Bayar Muluk, N. (eds) Pediatric ENT Infections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80691-0_66

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