The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 165, No. 6 (Jun., 1992), pp. 1082-1085 (4 pages) The product-limit incidence of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (MAC) bacteremia in 1006 human ...

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 ...

Your shower may not be getting you as clean as you think with a U.S. study finding many showerheads are dirty and may be covering you in a daily dose of bacteria that could make you sick. An analysis ...

November 11, 2009 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — A subset of patients with solid organ malignancies and pulmonary Mycobacterium avium–complex (MAC) infections might fare worse if the infection is ...

Patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacterium avium complex had significantly improved survival if they achieved microbiological cure at the end of treatment, ...

DRESHER, PA. (WPVI) -- We need bacteria to digest food and absorb nutrients. However, when a bacteria commonly found in soil and water gets into our lungs, it can cause trouble, in the form of a MAC ...

If you have Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease, your doctor may suggest treatment with Arikayce. It’s a prescription drug used together with other drugs to treat MAC lung disease that’s ...

New research from Norway has shown that Mycobacterium avium does not infect pigs via birds, as previously believed. M. avium can be divided into several subspecies, and the research shows that birds ...

Showering may be bad for your health, say US scientists, who have shown that dirty shower heads can deliver a face full of harmful bacteria. Tests revealed nearly a third of devices harbour ...

Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) is a pathogenic bacterium responsible for Johne’s disease, a chronic granulomatous enteritis primarily affecting ruminants. This disease poses ...

Researchers at Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI) and the Irish Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory at St James's Hospital have uncovered how the bacterium Mycobacterium avium—a leading ...