{"id":6640,"date":"2002-09-11T19:59:28","date_gmt":"2002-09-11T18:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/6640\/"},"modified":"2014-06-04T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T10:22:53","slug":"6640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/6640","title":{"rendered":"Mycobacterium avium complex and atypical mycobacterial infections in the setting of HIV infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark A. Jacobson, MD, University of California San Francisco,\u00a0Judith A Aberg, MD, Washington University, Saint Louis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) consists of several related species of mycobacterium that are ubiquitous in the environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MAC rarely causes disease in individuals with a normal immune system. In patients with AIDS, however, it is one of the most common serious opportunistic infections. Among HIV-infected individuals, disseminated MAC has historically occurred almost exclusively in patients with a CD4 count &lt;50 cells\/cu mm. Colonization of the respiratory or gastrointestinal (GI) tract by MAC can occur without evident morbidity; however, MAC colonization of these sites indicates that patients are at increased risk for developing disseminated MAC infection. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has been associated with reductions in AIDS-related mortality, days of hospitalization, and the incidence of new OIs. However, there have been numerous reports of aberrant clinical presentations of MAC since the introduction of HAART.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hivinsite.ucsf.edu\/InSite.jsp?page=kb-05-01-05\">http:\/\/hivinsite.ucsf.edu\/InSite.jsp?page=kb-05-01-05<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark A. Jacobson, MD, University of California San Francisco,\u00a0Judith A Aberg, MD, Washington University, Saint Louis Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) consists of several related species of mycobacterium that are ubiquitous in the environment. MAC rarely causes disease in individuals with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}