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Mycobacterium avium complex disease in patients with AIDS: seroreactivity to native and recombinant mycobacterial antigens
... Antibodies to Mycobacterium avium complex MAC antigens were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and immunoblot analyses in sera from 20 patients with AIDS and disseminated MAC[r] ...
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Clinical and Epidemiological Correlates of Genotypes within the Mycobacterium avium Complex Defined by Restriction and Sequence Analysis of hsp65
... the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) remains a difficult ...M. avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare can be identified with expensive, commercially available probes, many MAC isolates ...
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Identification of Mycobacterium avium complex in sarcoidosis
... with Mycobacterium avium complex- and/or Mycobacterium paratuberculosis-specific probes in five of the six cultured isolates and two fresh skin biopsy samples and one cerebrospinal fluid ...
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Multisite Reproducibility of Results Obtained by Two Broth Dilution Methods for Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium avium Complex
... of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) by broth microdilution using two different media (cation-adjusted Mueller-Hinton broth with 5% oleic acid-albumin-dextrose-catalase and 7H9 broth with casein) and ...
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Levels of Antibody against Glycopeptidolipid Core as a Marker for Monitoring Treatment Response in Mycobacterium avium Complex Pulmonary Disease: a Prospective Cohort Study
... ABSTRACT The diagnosis of Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease (MAC-PD) is sometimes complicated and time-consuming. A serodiagnostic kit that measures the serum levels of IgA antibodies ...
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Analysis of drug treatment outcome in clarithromycin resistant Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease
... Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is increasingly important as a causative agent of pulmonary disease [1–3]. Drug therapy for MAC lung disease is long, costly and often associated with drug-related ...
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Consolidations in Nodular Bronchiectatic Mycobacterium Avium Complex Lung Disease: Mycobacterium Avium Complex or Other Infection?
... Fig. 1. A 45-year-old woman with NB-MAC, initially presenting with consolidation. (A) Plain chest radiography shows an ill-defined ovoid consolidation in left middle lung zone (arrow). (B) Initial CT scans shows mild ...
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Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis analysis of the Mycobacterium avium complex and other mycobacteria
... Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis Analysis of the Mycobacterium avium Complex and Other Mycobacteria CHARLES F.. MURRAY2 Departments of Biology' and Experimental Statistics,2 New Mexico [r] ...
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Distribution of IS901 in strains of Mycobacterium avium complex from swine by using IS901 detecting primers that discriminate between M avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare
... of Mycobacterium avium complex; 122 veterinary strains of mycobacteria, mainly ...M. avium complex, isolated from swine; and 15 clinical ...M. avium complex into M. ...
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Use of restriction fragment length polymorphisms resolved by pulsed field gel electrophoresis for subspecies identification of mycobacteria in the Mycobacterium avium complex and for isolation of DNA probes
... Mycobacterial strains from the Mycobacterium avium complex were compared with each other and with Mycobacterium phlei isolates by restriction endonuclease digestion of chromosomal DNA wi[r] ...
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Whole chromosomal DNA probes for rapid identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium complex
... Whole chromosomal DNA probes were used to identify clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex, and Mycobacterium gordonae.. tuberculosis was prepared fr[r] ...
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Characterization of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis and organisms of the Mycobacterium avium complex by restriction polymorphism of the rRNA gene region
... Characterization of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis and Organisms of the Mycobacterium avium Complex by Restriction Polymorphism of the rRNA Gene Region RODRICK J.. CHIODINI Mycobacteriol[r] ...
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Genomic Comparison of PE and PPE Genes in the Mycobacterium avium Complex
... The Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) comprises genomically similar but phenotypically divergent bacteria that inhabit diverse environments and that cause disease in different ...M. avium ...
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Mycobacterium avium Complex Extracellular Vesicles Attenuate Inflammation via Inducing IL-10
... Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is an ubiquitous acid-fast bacterium. MAC cell wall and membrane release extracellular vesicles (EVs) into different media. The immunogenic effects of EVs isolated ...
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In Vitro Activity of Amikacin against Isolates of Mycobacterium avium Complex with Proposed MIC Breakpoints and Finding of a 16S rRNA Gene Mutation in Treated Isolates
... of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease, especially for patients who have cavitary disease or whose isolate is macrolide resistant ...
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Absence of Mycobacterium intracellulare and Presence of Mycobacterium chimaera in Household Water and Biofilm Samples of Patients in the United States with Mycobacterium avium Complex Respiratory Disease
... of Mycobacterium avium could be matched by DNA ...for Mycobacterium intracellulare, household water sources for 36 patients with Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease ...
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Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection in an immunocompetent pregnant woman
... In this study, CD4 T cell count was not checked during fol- low-up period, which was the limitation of this report. However, the patient was previously healthy and WBC count was within normal range. The positive ...
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Improved detection times for Mycobacterium avium complex and Mycobacterium tuberculosis with the BACTEC radiometric system
... tuberculosis from smear-negative specimens combined the data from both decontaminated and untreated specimens and found mean detection times of 13.7 days 13 and 20 days 14, results which[r] ...
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Identification of Mycobacterium avium complex strains and some similar species by high performance liquid chromatography
... Strains of Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intraceil*are, Mycobacterium scrofulaceum, Mycobacterium xenopi, and Mycobacterium gordonae were identified by high-performance liquid chrom[r] ...
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Comprehensive approach to identification of serovars of Mycobacterium avium complex
... For instance, when the GPLs from several clinical isolates that displayed agglutination reactions indicative of a mixture of serovars 1 and 8 were applied to a TLC plate, the GPLs of bot[r] ...
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