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This case report describes a previously healthy 78-year-old male farmer with lung lesions discovered on a computerized tomography scan. Combined with the patient\u2019s history of fever and the results of elevated laboratory markers associated with inflammation, the patient was diagnosed with a lung infection. After escalating empirical broad-spectrum antibiotics, antiviral and antifungal therapy, the patient continued to deteriorate to septic shock. In the meanwhile, the patient\u2019s sputum was cultured repeatedly, and no obvious positive pathogenic bacteria were found. Considering the patient was elderly and that these lesions were solid with burr signs, as well as the progression after antimicrobial therapy cancer was considered in the differential diagnosis. Artificial intelligence (YITU, Hangzhou Yitu Medical Technology Limited Company) was also applied, and it also calculated that these lesions were cancerous. The patient received a puncture biopsy of the largest lung lesion. During the puncture pus was withdrawn from largest lung lesion. Culture and metagenome next-generation sequencing (mNGS) detection performed on pus indicated\n                    <jats:italic>Nocardia otitidiscaviarum<\/jats:italic>\n                    . The test report of the mNGS is also attached with a susceptibility report of commonly used clinical antibiotics to this\n                    <jats:italic>Nocardia<\/jats:italic>\n                    spp. Using this result, the patient\u2019s disease was quickly controlled after selecting the targeted drug compound sulfamethoxazole and intravenous meropenem for treatment. 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