Response to letter to editor for YBBMT-D-18-00212

Response: We thank the authors for their comments, which we addressed in the discussion of our article. We found no evidence of a Nocardia outbreak to explain the increase in nocardial infections, which occurred over a period of several years at multiple locations 1. Furthermore, since the lung is the most common site of nocardial infection in both sporadic cases as well as in reported outbreaks, the occurrence of only pulmonary cases in our report does not necessarily imply that there was a localized outbreak.

Source: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation - June 14, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Alfonso Molina, Drew J. Winston, Darren Pan, Gary J. Schiller Source Type: research