TB Research

Clinical Features and Treatment Outcomes of Pulmonary <i>Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare</i> Complex With and Without Coinfections

Grace Wang, Jack T. Stapleton, Arthur W. Baker, Nadine Rouphael, C. Buddy Creech, Hana M. El Sahly, Jason E. Stout, Lisa A. Jackson, et al. (22 authors)

Open Forum Infectious Diseases · 2022-07

Abstract

Coinfections are more common in patients with cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis. Infiltrates on imaging studies are seen more commonly in patients with coinfections, but coinfections did not affect treatment outcomes of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex.

MeSH terms

  • Mycobacterium avium complex
  • Medicine
  • Bronchiectasis
  • Coinfection
  • Pulmonary infection
  • Mycobacterium
  • Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Internal medicine
  • Pathology
  • Lung