HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infections

Mycobacterium avium complex helps recruit monocyte HIV hosts

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 10th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States have shed new light on the deleterious effects of Mycobacterium avium infection in HIV and AIDS patients.

"In lymphoid tissues coinfected with Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) and HIV-1, increased viral replication has been observed," explained Hollie Hale-Donze and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, George Washington University in Washington, DC, and Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.

MAC recruits healthy monocytes to the area of infection to serve as fresh HIV hosts, Hale-Donze and coauthors found.

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