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Another interesting finding in our case is that our patient did not have any pulmonary symptoms despite chest CT showing the pulmonary system as the likely primary site of infection. As per our literature review, this is the seventh reported case of infection due to Nocardia beijingensis in an immunocompetent host.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.12890\/2020_001904","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,25]],"date-time":"2021-05-25T09:52:37Z","timestamp":1621936357000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Disseminated Nocardia beijingensis Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient"],"prefix":"10.12890","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8206-3405","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Moni","family":"Roy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois, USA and OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Annia","family":"Martial","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sharjeel","family":"Ahmad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"10397","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"10.12890\/2020_001904_ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"<li>Wang L, Zhang Y, Lu Z, Shi Y, Liu Z, Maldonado L, et al. 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