A case with community-acquired pneumonia caused by nocardia

Nocardiosis is a disease affecting different organs of the body and pulmonary forms of nocardiosis are induced via aerosolized inoculation of the bacterium into the airways. The infection causes pneumonia-like symptoms. Pulmonary nocardiosis clinically appears similar to many other viral, bacterial, or fungal infections as well as several types of malignancy and tuberculosis.