{"id":5231,"date":"2014-12-11T09:22:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/granulomatous-suppurative-pneumonia-due-to-nocardia-in-a-calf\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:49:11","slug":"granulomatous-suppurative-pneumonia-due-to-nocardia-in-a-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/granulomatous-suppurative-pneumonia-due-to-nocardia-in-a-calf\/","title":{"rendered":"Granulomatous-suppurative pneumonia due to Nocardia in a calf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Histologically  an encapsulated  lesion was observed with coalescent areas of suppurative necrosis and abundant  macrophages. Gram staining allowed to observe the presence of abundant filamentous Gram positive bacteria. <\/p>\n<p>The microbiological culture identified abundant growth of bacteria of the genus <strong>Nocardia<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Being an lesion of caseous aspect it was necessary to rule out that it was a case of <a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/tuberculous-lesions-why-is-it-important-to-confirm-the-diagnosis\/?lang=en\">bovine tuberculosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2189\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2189\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-1-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"Granulomatous lesion in the lung  parenchima.\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-1-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Granulomatous lesion in the lung  parenchima.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2190\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2190\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-2-800x593.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of the lesion, which had a caseous appearance.\" width=\"620\" height=\"459\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-2-800x593.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-2-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of the lesion, which had a caseous appearance.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2186\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2186\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-3-750x600.jpg\" alt=\"Histologically an intense suppurative infiltrate could be observed  (asterisk) but also the presence of abundant macrophages, some them multinucleated (lower half of the image).\" width=\"620\" height=\"496\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-3-750x600.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-3-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Histologically an intense suppurative infiltrate could be observed  (asterisk) but also the presence of abundant macrophages, some them multinucleated (lower half of the image)..<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2187\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2187\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-4-750x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gram staining allowed the observation of abundant  gram positive filamentous bacteria (arrows), this can be seen in more detail in the insert on the bottom-left corner of the image.\" width=\"620\" height=\"496\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-4-750x600.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-4-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gram staining allowed the observation of abundant  gram positive filamentous bacteria (arrows), this can be seen in more detail in the insert on the bottom-left corner of the image.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2194\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2194\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-5-668x600.jpg\" alt=\"Growth of Nocardia sp. colonies in blood agar from the lung sample.\" width=\"620\" height=\"556\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-5-668x600.jpg 668w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-5-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SESC-091-14-5.jpg 1096w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Growth of Nocardia sp. colonies in blood agar from the lung sample.Image provided by the Servicio de Bacteriolog\u00eda y Micolog\u00eda del Departamento de Sanidad y Anatom\u00eda Animales de la UAB.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Histologically an encapsulated lesion was observed with coalescent areas of suppurative necrosis and abundant macrophages. Gram staining allowed to observe the presence of abundant filamentous Gram positive bacteria. The microbiological culture identified abundant growth of bacteria of the genus Nocardia. Being an lesion of caseous aspect it was necessary to rule out that it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,257],"tags":[397,405,410,392],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bovine-2","category-thoracic-cavity-bovine-2","tag-infectious-en","tag-lungs-en","tag-tb-en","tag-thoracic-cavity-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}