The Infectious Diseases Working Party of the European Blood and Marrow Transplant Group conducted a survey to obtain information about the frequency, presentation, and treatment of mycobacterial ...

Background: A 54-year-old man with a 22-year history of rheumatoid arthritis and an 8-year history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented with dyspnea on exertion, nonproductive cough and ...

RECENTLY there has been increasing clinical awareness of a group of micro-organisms, variously named the "anonymous," "atypical," "saprophytic" or "unclassified" mycobacteria, which are apparently ...

1 Moorfields Eye Hospital, 162 City Rd, London EC1V 2PD, UK 1 Moorfields Eye Hospital, 162 City Rd, London EC1V 2PD, UK Corneal laser refractive surgery is an increasingly common form of optical ...

In early 1979, an official of an Illinois hospital reported an increase in the number of patients from whom Mycobacterium avium complex recently had been recovered. Over the preceding 3 years ...

There are many forms of bacteria in the mycobacteria family. For example, the most common mycobacteria can lead to the onset of tuberculosis. Leprosy is caused by other mycobacteria. In addition, ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are two distinct types of bacteria that can cause infections in the lungs and other parts of the body. Belonging to the same ...

Talk to one of the estimated 30 million Americans living with a rare disease and it quickly becomes clear just how great an impact these diseases can have on an individual's life. [1] Take Betsy, a ...