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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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Recent advances in nontuberculous mycobacterial lung infections [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2019
Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are members of the Mycobacterium genus other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and Mycobacterium leprae. NTM are widely distributed in the environment and are increasingly recognized as causes of chronic lung ...
David Horne, Shawn Skerrett
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Disseminated Mycobacterium peregrinum and Mycobacterium avium infection in a patient with AIDS: A case report and review of literature

Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2022
Disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infections are frequently recognized in patients living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (MAIC) is the most common species.
Chong Kei Lao, Ting-Shu Wu, Kuan-Yin Lin, Ming-Hsun Lee   +3 more
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Soft tissue abscess and lymphadenitis due to Mycobacterium avium Complex as an expression of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome after a second scheme of highly active antiretroviral therapy Linfadenitis y absceso subcutáneo por Complejo Mycobacterium avium como manifestación de síndrome inflamatorio de reconstitución inmune luego de un segundo esquema de terapia antirretroviral de gran actividad

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2007
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is an atypical and unexpected reaction related to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients.
Marcelo Corti, María F. Villafañe, Marta Ambroggi, Mirna Sawicki, Elisa Gancedo   +4 more
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex mycobacteria as amoeba-resistant organisms. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: Most environmental non-tuberculous mycobacteria have been demonstrated to invade amoebal trophozoites and cysts, but such relationships are largely unknown for members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
Felix Mba Medie, Iskandar Ben Salah, Bernard Henrissat, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt   +4 more
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The unique diagnostic and management challenge of a patient with concomitant anti-interferon-gamma autoantibody associated immunodeficiency syndrome, IgG4-related disease, and treatment refractory, disseminated mycobacterium avium complex infection

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2022
Background Anti-interferon-gamma autoantibody-associated immunodeficiency syndrome is a rare and underrecognized adult onset immunodeficiency syndrome associated with severe opportunistic infections such as disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterium.
Spencer Boyle, Ashley Hagiya, Minh-Vu H. Nguyen, Howard Liebman, Jin Sol G. Lee   +4 more
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Oral β-lactam combinations are effective in vitro against Mycobacterium avium, regardless of clarithromycin susceptibility

Microbiology Spectrum
The global incidence and prevalence of pulmonary disease caused by the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), mainly comprising M. avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare, is increasing.
Maiko Yoshikawa, Tomoyasu Nishimura, Kana Misawa, Rina Shimamura, Kenta Suzuki, Shoko Kashimura, Yuki Igarashi, Yuki Enoki, Kazuaki Taguchi, Naoki Hasegawa, Ho Namkoong, Kazuaki Matsumoto   +11 more
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Nontuberculous mycobacterial empyema in an immunocompetent child

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2018
Nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) species are mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium Tuberculosis complex and Mycobacterium leprae. There are very few reports of NTM in immunocompetent children causing empyema.
Ira Shah, Forum Shah
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Diferenciação de micobactérias por PCR multiplex Differentiation of micobacteria by multiplex PCR

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2009
O trabalho visou à otimização de um método baseado na reação em cadeia da polimerase multiplex - para diferenciação de micobactérias de interesse para a saúde pública.
Diogo da Rocha Poroca, Andrea Santos Lima, Juliana Falcão de Araújo Lima, Heidi Lacerda Alves da Cruz, Rosana de Albuquerque Montenegro, Fábio Lopes de Melo, Haiana Charifker Schindler, Lílian Maria Lapa Montenegro   +7 more
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Altered Pharmacokinetics and Delayed Sputum Conversion in Tuberculosis Patients Co‐Infected With HIV

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background HIV co‐infection affects host responses and pharmacokinetics (PK) of tuberculosis (TB) treatment. This study assessed the PK of first‐line anti‐TB drugs and clinical outcomes in patients with and without HIV co‐infection. Methods In this prospective observational study, 61 adults with sputum‐positive pulmonary TB, either confirmed ...
Aung Pyae Phyo, Richard M. Hoglund, Makoto Saito, Sein Sein Thi, Lei Lei Swe, Palang Chotsiri, Htet Ko Ko Aung, Win Pa Pa Tun, Banyar Maung Maung, Chanapat Pateekham, Wanitda Watthanaworawit, Gornpan Gornsawun, Nicholas J. White, Francois Nosten, Joel Tarning   +14 more
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