Nocardia paucivorans Endophthalmitis and Cerebral Abscesses in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Report

From the ∗Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Nepean Hospital, Kingswood

†Department of Ophthalmology, Parke Street Specialist Centre, Katoomba

‡New South Wales Health Pathology, Nepean Hospital, Kingswood

§Department of Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health

∥Nepean Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Correspondence to: Heeral Thakkar, BMed, MD(Dist), Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Nepean Hospital, Derby St, Kingswood, NSW, Sydney, Australia 2747. E-mail: [email protected].

Heeral Thakkar ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6136-6100

Palaniraj Rama Raj ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9018-0644

The authors have no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose.

Consent to publish: Written informed consent for publication of their clinical details and/or clinical images was obtained from the patient/parent/guardian/relative of the patient. A copy of the consent forms is available for review by the editor of this journal.

Ethics approval: Ethics approval was waived by the local Ethics Committee of Nepean and Blue Mountains Local Health District in accordance with section 5.1.22 of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007 (updated 2018) and the NSW Office of Health and Medical Research Low and Negligible Risk research review or exemption from ethics review. A letter of exemption is available for review by the editor of this journal.

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