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SUBMITTER: Stout JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2519484 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stout Jason E JE Hopkins Gregory W GW McDonald Jay R JR Quinn Anita A Hamilton Carol D CD Reller L Barth LB Frothingham Richard R
Journal of clinical microbiology 20080611 8
Organisms within the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) may have differential virulence. We compared 33 subjects with MAC pulmonary disease to 75 subjects with a single positive culture without disease. M. avium isolates were significantly more likely to be associated with MAC pulmonary disease (odds ratio = 5.14, 95% confidence interval = 1.25 to 22.73) than M. intracellulare. ...[more]