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Mycobacterial bacteraemia in patients infected and not infected with human immunodeficiency virus, Taiwan.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jun 2010
Tan C-K, Lai C-C, Liao C-H, Chou C-H, Hsu H-L, Huang Y-T, Hsueh P-R
Abstract excerpt
The clinical characteristics and outcomes of 71 patients with mycobacterial bacteraemia, infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (n = 47) and not infected with HIV (n = 24) are described. Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) (54.9%) constituted the most frequently isolated mycobacterium, followed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) (38.0%), Mycobacterium kansasii (4.2%), and Mycobacterium abscessus (2.8%)....
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