Successful Intra-peritoneal Antibiotic Therapy for Primary Abdominal Nocardiosis in an Immunocompetent Young Female Masquerading as Carcinoma Ovary

• Main Authors: Ravi N Patil, UD Bafna, Pallavi VR, PS Rathod
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Light House Polyclinic Mangalore 2012-01-01
• Series: Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences
• Subjects: Nocardiosis; CAPD patients; Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX); Amikacin; Intraperitoneal.
• Online Access: http://www.ojhas.org/issue40/2011-4-11.htm

Nocardiosis is a common opportunistic infection in the immunocompromised and in patients with chronic debilitating diseases,e.g continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients. Primary abdominal nocardiosis is rare and is indeed a very rare infection in immunocompetent persons. Only two cases have been reported in immunocompetent patients so far and this may be third case to the best of our knowledge and first in India. About 11 cases have been reported in CAPD patients and AIDS patients.We report a case of Nocardiosis in an immunocompetent young female who presented with an abdomino-pelvic mass masquerading as carcinoma ovary.After initial resistance to various antibiotics, she responded to intraperitoneal and oral linezolid and oral ciprofloxacin.