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Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex pneumonia in a non-HIV-infected individual: an increasingly recognized
D S Asnis1, A R Bresciani, M Cohn
1Department of Internal Medicine, NY 11355, USA.
Southern Medical Journal
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
In the past, Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) was considered a colonizing microbe in the immunocompetent host. Today it should be considered a potential pathogen. We present a case of MAC necrotizing pneumonia in a 27-year-old man who tested negatively for the human immunodeficiency virus, had no typical granulomas, and responded rapidly to antimicrobial therapy.