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Generalized Mycobacterium genavense Infection in HIV-infected Patients: Detection of the Mycobacterium in Hospital Tap Water
Generalized Mycobacterium genavense Infection in HIV-infected Patients: Detection of the Mycobacterium in Hospital Tap Water
- Source :
- Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases. 31:63-68
- Publication Year :
- 1999
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 1999.
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Abstract
- We describe 3 HIV-infected patients with disseminated M. genavense infection. The use of corticosteroids possibly favoured colonization and dissemination of atypical mycobacteria in these patients with low CD4 cell counts and may have masked symptoms of infection. The fact that these patients were treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) together with antimycobacterial therapy may explain that 1 patient was free from mycobacteria 16 months after the end of specific treatment. Hospital tap water contained M. genavense at a concentration of >10 bacteria/l as examined by PCR. This species caused 12% of cases of non-tuberculous disseminated mycobacteriosis in HIV-infected patients at our hospital.
- Subjects :
- Adult
DNA, Bacterial
Male
Microbiology (medical)
Opportunistic infection
medicine.drug_class
Biopsy
Mycobacterium genavense
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous
Antimycobacterial
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Adrenal Cortex Hormones
Water Supply
Immunopathology
medicine
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Lymphocyte Count
Sida
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
General Immunology and Microbiology
biology
business.industry
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
General Medicine
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Virology
CD4 Lymphocyte Count
Infectious Diseases
Immunology
Viral disease
Water Microbiology
business
Mycobacterium
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16511980 and 00365548
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....48cb4b394a8fd79c2f5d3f81138ef0e8
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00365549950161907