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[Disseminated infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum in an AIDS patient]
1Unidad 10, Hospital de Enfermedades Infecciosas F.J. Muñiz, Buenos Aires.
Medicina
|August 19, 1999
Abstract:
A patient with advanced HIV-1 disease bearing a rapidly growing, atypical mycobacterium is presented. Mycobacterium fortuitum was identified in sputum and purulent material obtained by aspirating subcutaneous abscesses. The treatment scheme is evaluated and the literature is reviewed.