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MAC infection

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Mycobacterium avium (MAC) infection
A type of opportunistic infection that occurs in about 40% of AIDS patients and is regarded as an AIDS-defining disease.
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Before the emergence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-AIDS, MAC infection was usually only seen as an indolent lung infection, similar to tuberculosis, in elderly Caucasian men with underlying lung disease.
Spinal infection caused by Mycobacterium avium complex in a patient ... by N M Wong and L K Sun and P Y Lau / Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery
haemophilum infection were compared with those with MAC infection.
Mycobacterium haemophilum and lymphadenitis in immunocompetent ... by Cohen, Yishai Haimi; Amir, Jacob; Ashkenazi, Shai; Eidlitz-Markus, Tal; Samra, Zmira; Kaufmann, Lea; / Emerging Infectious Diseases
9) Together, the development of highly active anti-retroviral (HAART) therapy for AIDS and effective macrolide-based prophylaxis and treatment regimens against disseminated MAC almost relegated MAC infection in AIDS patients to a problem of the past, but not quite.
If it isn't something, it's something else .. by Griffith, David E. / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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