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<em>Mycobacterium avium</em> complex: Adherence as a way of life
1 Jan 2018
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<em>Mycobacterium avium</em> complex (MAC) organisms are waterborne, opportunistic pathogens whose source is natural waters and soils and proliferates and persists in premise plumbing, for example household and hospital plumbing. <em>M. avium</em> complex and other environmental mycobacteria grow slowly, not because their metabolism is slow, but because they synthesize long chain (C<sub>60</sub>–C<sub>80</sub>)...
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