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A Case Report on Disseminated <i>Mycobacterium avium</i> Complex Infection in an Otherwise Healthy Individual-A Diagnostic Challenge. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection can mimic tuberculosis (TB) in immunocompetent individuals, leading to diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Clinicians should consider nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in patients unresponsive to anti‐tubercular therapy (ATT), especially in endemic regions.
Hridoy AB, Newaz S, Ahmed M, Tina JA, Sarker S, Tabassum A, Al-Aziz MZ, Amin MR.   +7 more
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Differential Protein Expression in Exponential and Stationary Growth Phases of Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis 104

Molecules, 2021
Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is the most common non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) and causes different types of pulmonary diseases. While genomic and transcriptomic analysis of Mycobacterium avium 104 (M.
Shymaa Enany, Manabu Ato, Sohkichi Matsumoto   +2 more
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A young boy with disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
The case of a Chinese boy with no medical history, who presented with diarrhea and weight loss of 14-month duration and rashes and fever or 6-month duration, is described.
Kangkang Yu, Li Song, Jiming Zhang, Ning Li   +3 more
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Potential therapeutic effect of ninjinyoeito for the treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: A case report

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019
A 40-year-old man presented with refractory pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection, despite administration of antituberculous drugs for 2 years.
Tatsuya Nogami
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Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections in ruxolitinib-treated patients with primary or secondary myelofibrosis or polycythemia vera

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
Ruxolitinib is a JAK-1/JAK-2 inhibitor indicated for the treatment of polycythemia vera and primary or secondary myelofibrosis. Only one patient (0.2%) was diagnosed with tuberculosis among the 485 patients receiving ruxolitinib in the four pivotal ...
Sylvain Lescuyer, Marie-Pierre Ledoux, Simon Gravier, Shanti Natarajan-Amé, Céline Duval, Fréderic Maloisel, Laurent Mauvieux, Elise Toussaint, Luc-Matthieu Fornecker, Raoul Herbrecht   +9 more
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Molecular isolation and identification of Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis in Didelphis virginiana from Hidalgo, Mexico

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020
Objective: To isolate and identify the exact species of the genus Mycobacterium from Didelphis (D.) virginiana, and the direct implications of this bacterium to public health and veterinary medicine. Methods: Thirty-one D.
Nallely Rivero-Perez, Juan Ocampo-López, Benjamín Valladares-Carranza, Fabián R Gómez de Anda, Francisco J Peña Jiménez, Victor M Martínez Juárez, Armando Peláez Acero, José I Olave Leyva, Deyanira Ojeda-Ramírez, Adrian Zaragoza-Bastida   +9 more
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Mycobacterium colombiense and Mycobacterium avium Complex Causing Severe Pneumonia in a Patient with HIV Identified by a Novel Molecular-Based Method

Infection and Drug Resistance, 2021
Xiaoling Yu, Wenqian Jiang Department of Infectious Diseases, Mengchao Hepatobiliary Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Xiaoling YuDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Mengchao Hepatobiliary ...
Yu X, Jiang W
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Isolation of Mycobacterium avium and other nontuberculous mycobacteria in chickens and captive birds in peninsular Malaysia

BMC Veterinary Research, 2021
Background Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) causes a chronic infectious in the birds known as avian mycobacteriosis. Almost all species of the birds are susceptible to MAC which consists of two closely related species of mycobacteria, that is, M.
Abdul Sattar, Zunita Zakaria, Jalila Abu, Saleha A. Aziz, Gabriel Rojas-Ponce   +4 more
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Evaluation of Aro-Tal-AST complex protein as a marker for differential diagnosis of Mycobacterium avium Infection

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2011
Purpose: Conventional diagnostic techniques for detecting Mycobacterium avium infection are far from satisfactory. As serodiagnostic tests for M. avium infection have been shown to be simple and rapid, the present study was carried out to identify and ...
Kapil Gupta, Indu Verma, Gopal K Khuller, Rajiv Mahajan   +3 more
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Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare brain abscess in HIV-positive patient

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2012
Mycobacterial opportunistic infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality among patients living with HIV (PLHIV) worldwide. Nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infection is one of the leading causes of opportunistic infection in patients with ...
Sampada S Karne, Shashikala A Sangle, Dilip S Kiyawat, Sujata N Dharmashale, Dilip B Kadam, Renu S Bhardwaj   +5 more
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