A 56-year-old black man, known to have HIV with a last CD4+ T lymphocyte count of 13 cells/mcL, presented with a 2-month history of anorexia, 30-pound weight loss, and generalized weakness. He ...

Between 1981 and 1990, cultures of specimens from 86 patients at State University of New York-Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn were positive for nontuberculous mycobacteria other than Mycobacterium ...

Infection Control surveillance revealed an abnormally high number of sputum samples growing Mycobacterium fortuitum from a single ward that houses the human immunodeficiency virus service. We ...

April 27, 2001 — -- A trip to the beauty salon was anything but pretty for more than 100 women in California. A contaminated pedicurist's footbath led to unsightly and potentially disfiguring ...

Isolation of any mycobacterial species, especially M fortuitum, from sites other than blood has to be evaluated on an individual basis, including the patient"s immune state. This makes the diagnosis ...