Pulmonary nocardiosis and empyema
Lajos, T.Z.; Jarzylo, S.V.
New York State Journal of Medicine 70(22): 2829-2832
1970
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-7628 PMID: 5273370 Document Number: 22356
A case is presented in a 47-yr-old white man complaining of fatigue, wt. loss, anorexia, shortness of breath and general malaise. Nocardia asteroides was isolated.
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