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 M. xenopi Looks Like TB in HIV+

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 26th, 1995

HIV-infected patients may have pulmonary Mycobacterium xenopi infection that is clinically indistinguishable from tuberculosis.

Researcher Helen M. Jacoby and colleagues at New York's University of Rochester Medical Center report two such cases ("Mycobacterium xenopi Infection Masquerading as Pulmonary TB in Two Patients Infected with HIV," Clinical Infectious Diseases, May 1995;20:1399-1401).

M. xenopi infections have rarely been reported among patients infected with HIV.

In this report Jacoby et al. outline the cases of two HIV-infected men, neither of whom had a history of pulmonary disease or AIDS defining...

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