Opportunistic Infections (HIV)

M. kansasii Presentation Characterized

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 14th, 1997

In patients with AIDS, Mycobacterium kansasii infection generally presents late in the course of HIV infection, and the lung is the organ most frequently involved, according to a review of 46 cases.

M. kansasii is second only to M. avium complex among the atypical mycobacteria that cause disease in patients with AIDS, and disseminated M. kansasii infection is an AIDS-defining condition in patients infected with HIV. Of patients with AIDS whose cases were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) between 1981 and 1987, 0.44 percent of those from areas where M. kansasii is endemic and 0.08 percent of those from...

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