Literature DB >> 10225399

Disseminated mycobacterium avium complex infection presenting as osteomyelitis in a normal host.

D Pombo1, M L Woods, S J Burgert, I B Shumsky, L G Reimer.   

Abstract

Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection presenting as a painful lytic femur lesion with associated fever, night sweats and weight loss occurred in a 45-y-old woman with apparent normal immune function. Surgical drainage and 24 months of medical therapy resulted in a cure.

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Year:  1998        PMID: 10225399     DOI: 10.1080/00365549850161269

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Scand J Infect Dis        ISSN: 0036-5548


  3 in total

1.  Back pain and immunosuppression: What is at the root of it all?

Authors:  L M Saxinger
Journal:  Can J Infect Dis       Date:  2000-09

2.  Chronic Multifocal Osteomyelitis - Is Mycobacterium avium Complex Really the Culprit? A Case Report in an Adult Female.

Authors:  Jordan E Johnson; Marco S Gupton; Jordan Finn; Chenthuran Deivaraju
Journal:  J Orthop Case Rep       Date:  2021-09

Review 3.  Nontuberculous mycobacterial osteomyelitis.

Authors:  Sheng Bi; Fei-Shu Hu; Hai-Ying Yu; Kai-Jin Xu; Bei-Wen Zheng; Zhong-Kang Ji; Jun-Jie Li; Mei Deng; Hai-Yang Hu; Ji-Fang Sheng
Journal:  Infect Dis (Lond)       Date:  2015-04-27
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