Touch preparation of skin biopsy specimen for rapid diagnosis of cutaneous Nocardia nova in the immunocompromised host

JAAD Case Rep. 2019 Apr 6;5(4):389-391. doi: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2019.02.010. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Authors

Edward C Traver^{1

2}, Sameera Husain³, Marc E Grossman^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra/Northwell, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.
² University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Dermatology, Columbia University, New York, New York.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, Hofstra/Northwell, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

No abstract available

Keywords: AFB, acid-fast bacilli; GMS, Gomori methenamine silver; Nocardia nova; immunocompromised; touch preparation.

Publication types

Case Reports