HIV Infection and Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria: How Important in Southern European Countries?
- 1 September 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 36 (9), 685-686
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00365540410020811
Abstract
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria are considered important opportunistic infections in HIV-infected patients. In a large south-European HIV centre only 10 patients had non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection over a 5-y period. The importance of these infections in some areas, the usefulness of prophylaxis or routine use of mycobacterial blood cultures, may have to be re-considered.Keywords
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