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Patients with kidney transplants more vulnerable to common, usually harmless bacterium
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Patients with kidney transplants more vulnerable to common, usually harmless bacterium

by  Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Credit: CC0 Public Domain It’s a pervasive bacterium found in soil and water that rarely causes disease, but a new national review of nocardia infection in people who have had a kidney transplant shows that when it occurs it most commonly causes pneumonia and brain abscess, and reminds...