eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology 2328-4064 2017-05-10 5 2 80 86 10.12691/ajidm-5-2-2 AJIDM2017522 article Afzalunnessa Binte Lutfor lizablutfor@gmail.com 1 Ritu Saha 1 Arpita Deb 1 Asif Mujtaba Mahmud 2 Abu Ahmed Ashraf Ali 2 Tasmin Haque 2 Sadia Rahman 2 Nadia Sharmin Shorno 3 Amina Arafat 3 Department of Microbiology, Ad-din Women's Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh Department of Respiratory Medicine, Asgar Ali Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh Department of Critical care & Emergency Medicine, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh Nocardiosis is an acute or chronic infectious disease that may occur in cutaneous, pulmonary and disseminated form in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent host. It may become potentially severe due to delayed diagnosis and incomplete or ineffective treatment. So the aim of the study was to isolate Nocardia spp. from suspected samples, mainly from chronic unhealed wounds and to identify appropriate antimicrobials by susceptibility testing in Bangladeshi patients. Methods: From January 2015-2017, 62 samples were collected which were studied for Nocardial identification and susceptibility testing. Results: Out of total 62 cases, 18 (29.03%) cases were Nocardia positive cases. Besides 6 Acinetobacter spp. and 2 Actinomyces spp. with other varied pathogens were isolated. Among 18 identified nocardiosis patients, majority (10) were post surgery cases, 6 suspected skin and glandular tuberculosis (TB) cases, one had breast sinus, and one was suspected pulmonary TB case. In terms of susceptibility of nocardial isolates, 100% were susceptible to linezolid, 88.9% to amikacin and 78% to trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajidm/5/2/2/ajidm-5-2-2.pdf chronic skin infection discharging sinus Nocardia non healing wound primary cutaneous nocardiosis