PULMONARY INFECTION DUE TO NOCARDIOPSIS-DASSONVILLEI, GORDONA-SPUTI, RHODOCOCCUS-RHODOCHROUS AND MICROMONOSPORA SP. IN NIGERIA AND LITERATURE-REVIEW

There have been only a few investigations on the role of aerobic actin omycetes in human infections from Nigeria. Forty-one patients of bronc hopulmonary disorders were investigated for infection due to aerobic a ctinomycetes in the course of an extension of an earlier study. Infect ions due to Nocardiopsis dassonvillei and Gordona sputi were detected in two cases each; the patients were asthmatic with a long term histor y of corticosteroid therapy. There was a solitary case of Rhodococcus rhodochrous infection in a patient clinically suspected of tuberculosi s. A single isolate of Micromonospora sp. was recovered from a case of pneumonia of unknown etiology.