HIV/AIDS-Related Mycobacterium
Mycobacterium avium complex infection in HIV infection rare in the era of HAART
Published in AIDS Weekly, November 22nd, 2004
"Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection is a common complication of late-stage HIV-1 infection. Since the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the rate of MAC infection has declined substantially, but patients with low CD4 cell counts remain at risk.
"Among patients in the Johns Hopkins cohort with advanced HIV disease, the proportion developing MAC has fallen from 16% before 1996 to 4% after 1996, with a current rate of less than 1% per year," investigators in the United States report.
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2004-11-22)
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