Primary cutaneous nocardiosis caused by Nocardia brasiliensis following a wasp sting. 2017

L Chu, and X Xu, and Y Ran
Department of Dermatology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University No. 37 of Guo Xue Xiang, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

We report a case of an 87-year-old woman who presented with painful erythema of her right forearm 10 days after she had been stung by a wasp on her right hand. The lesion had rapidly deteriorated during the week before presentation, and treatment with antibiotics and glucocorticoids did not improve the condition. After careful evaluation, we performed cultures from the lesion aspiration, and morphological and genetic analysis of bacteria cultures confirmed a bacterial infection with Nocardia brasiliensis. The patient recovered after 3 weeks. Primary cutaneous nocardiosis due to Nocardia spp. is relatively uncommon in clinics, but it was the distance of the lesions from the affected area of the wasp sting that has made this an even rarer case and of interest to report.

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