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Observed differences in virulence-associated phenotypes between a human clinical isolate and a veterinary isolate of Mycobacterium avium.
Infection and immunity - 1 Sept 1999
Birkness K A, Swords W E, Huang P H, White E H, Dezzutti C S, Lal R B, Quinn F D
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium avium, the most common opportunistic pathogen in patients with AIDS, is frequently isolated from a variety of environmental sources, but rarely can these environmental isolates be epidemiologically linked with isolates known to cause human disease. Using a number of in vitro tissue culture assays, we found significant pathogenic differences between a serotype 4 human clinical M. avium isolate and a...
Topics
- Animals
- Bird Diseases
- Birds
- Cell Line
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Intestines
- Lung
- Macrophages
- Mycobacterium avium
- Phenotype
- Tuberculosis