“…Only 33 patient strains were characterized as N. paucivorans among approximately 1800 isolates of Nocardia species [ 7 ]. Using the MEDLINE database back to the year 2000, we found sixteen cases of brain abscess caused by N. paucivorans in the world medical literature [ [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] ]. The clinical features of the sixteen patients and the one described herein are summarized in Table 1 .…”