Case | Age /sex | Author/year | Symptoms | Underlying disease | Immune suppression | Operation | Sites of disease | Treatments | Outcome |
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1 | 59/male | Kim 2002 | skin lesions, fever, cough | MG, thymoma | prednisolone | thymectomy | skin, lung | TMP-SMX | resolution |
2 | 49/male | El-Herte 2012 | Fever, chills, chest pain, weight loss | MG, thymoma | prednisone | thymectomy | lung, brain, heart | imipenem, amikacin, TMP-SMX | resolution |
3 | 59/female | Tanioka 2012 | Malaise, cough | MG | prednisolone, tacrolimus, cyclosporine | NA | lung, kidney, brain | imipenem-cilastatin, TMP-SMX, minocycline, meropenem, amikacin, linezolid | resolution |
4 | 79/male | Patel 2013 | left leg pain, cough | MG | prednisone | NA | leg, lung | moxifloxacin | NA |
5 | 77/male | Garcia 2015 | night sweats, cough | MG, TB | prednisone, plasmapheresis | thymectomy | lung, brain | TMP-SMX, meropenem, linezolid | resolution |
6 | 79/male | Veerappan 2015 | leg abscesses | MG | steroid | NA | lung, muscle | vancomycin, piperacillin-tazobactam, ampicillin, ceftriaxone, doxycycline, moxifloxacin, linezolid | resolution |
7 | 52/male | Wargo 2015 | cough, dyspnoea, weight loss, subcutaneous nodules, fatigue | MG, thymoma, Good’s syndrome | prednisone, chemotherapy, radiation | NA | lung, skin, brain | meropenem, TMP-SMX, imipenem, linezolid | resolution |
8 | 66/male | Wang 2019 | fever, dyspnoea, headache, pain on left eye and right leg, skin ulcer, blindness, muscle strength decreased | MG, hypertension, diabetes | methylprednisolone, azathioprine | None | Lung, brain, skin, ocular | TMP-SMX, etimicin sulfate, moxifloxacin, ceftriaxone, imipenem, meropenem | resolution |