1996 Volume 42 Issue 6 Pages 614-616
Primary cutaneous nocardiosis of the face is a rare diease in Japan. A 58-year-old woman visited our department due to post-traumatic facial swelling. Clinical exaination revealed a 2×3 cm induration with skin redness and a few small whitish pustules at the right side of the mental region. Nocardia brasiliensis was isolated from aspirated pus. Although N. brasiliensis was resistant to many antibiotics on sensitivity testing, the lesions disappeared relatively soon after the oral administration of sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim combination therapy followed by minocyclin.
