Mycobacterium avium bacteremia and dual infection with mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium wolinskyi in the gut of an AIDS patient--first case report.
An AIDS patient was admitted to a tertiary care hospital in central India with fever, weight loss, breathlessness, night sweats, diarrhoea, BMI 14 kg/m2, Hemoglobin 8 gm% and CD4 counts 120 cells/cumm. His blood culture by BACTEC 460 TB system revealed Mycobacterium avium bacteremia and stool culture grew Mycobacterium avium and mycobacterium wolinskyi.
Kasturba Hospital, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram, Wardha, Maharashtra.
Rahul
R
Narang
Pratibha
P
Narang
A P
AP
Jain
D K
DK
Mendiratta
Rajneesh
R
Joshi
Ram
R
Das
V M
VM
Katoch
D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D000328:Adult; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D020102:Mycobacterium smegmatis