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Localized cutaneous infection caused by Mycobacterium avium complex in an AIDS patient

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A case of localized cutaneous infection due to MAC in an AIDS patient is reported and is described as a rare finding among patients with the disease.
Abstract
Although infection due to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) has long been recognized, it was not until the current AIDS epidemic that isolation of these mycobacteria became common in microbiology laboratories. The disseminated form of the disease is the commonest type. Localized disease as the first manifestation of MAC infection is a rare finding among these patients. Herein we report a case of localized cutaneous infection due to MAC in an AIDS patient.

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Mycobacterium avium complex infection in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

TL;DR: Before the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic, disseminated infection with M. avium complex was extremely rare; by 1980, only 24 cases had been reported in the medical literature; beginning in 1982, however, the number of cases increased dramatically.
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Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections of the skin. Report of fourteen cases and review of the literature.

TL;DR: This study comprised 14 patients from whose skin nontuberculous mycobacteria were recovered, and found that most clinical manifestations were relatively nonspecific.
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Cutaneous manifestations of mycobacterial infection in patients with AIDS

TL;DR: Three cases of mycobacterial infection of the skin in HIV‐positive individuals, in whom the diagnosis was not suspected until microbiological and histological investigations were performed, are reported.
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Chronic Cutaneous Infection Caused by Mycobacterium intracellulare

TL;DR: A 53-year-old woman had multiple ulcerative skin lesions caused by Mycobacterium intracellulare that progressed slowly to involve large areas of her head and trunk.
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