"Genetic Similarity among Mycobacterium avium Isolates from Blood, Stool, and Sputum of Persons with AIDS."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Infectious Diseases, "Large-restriction-fragment pattern comparison of Mycobacterium avium from 85 blood, stool, and respiratory specimens from 25 human immunodeficiency virus infected San Francisco patients revealed 4 strains that infected multiple people (3 groups of 2 patients and 1 group of 3 patients). Most patients harbored a single M. avium strain, but 2 strains were recovered from 8 patients. The significance of recovering 2 strains is not clear, since the second strain was seldom recovered more than once. The strain recovered from blood was recovered from stool of 4 patients and respiratory...

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