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Atypical mycobacterial osteomyelitis in a non-AIDS patient
Sultan Niazi1, Vikas Batra, James G Zangrilli
1Department of Medicine, Division on Critical Care, Pulmonary, Allergic, and Immunologic Diseases, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Connecticut Medicine
|August 17, 2002
Abstract:
Disseminated Mycobacterium avium intercellulare (MAI) infection is rare in non-AIDS patients. We report a 60-year-old woman with chronic lung disease who developed vertebral osteomyelitis due to MAI. She was treated successfully with combined therapy consisting of rifampin, ethambutol, and clarithromycin.