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Mycobacterium avium

Known as: Tuberculose des oiseaux, avium mycobacterium, Bacillus tuberculosis gallinarum 
A species of aerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is acid fast, catalase positive, niacin… 
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Review
2020
Review
2020
General Overview of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Opportunistic Pathogens: Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium abscessus
Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are emerging human pathogens, causing a wide range of clinical diseases affecting individuals… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Integrated MicroRNA-mRNA-Analysis of Human Monocyte Derived Macrophages upon Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis Infection
Background Many efforts have been made to understand basal mechanisms of mycobacterial infections. Macrophages are the first line… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Characterization of biofilm formation by clinical isolates of Mycobacterium avium.
Mycobacterium avium is an environmental organism encountered in natural and urban water sources as well as soil. M. avium biofilm… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Mycobacterium avium Bacilli Grow Saprozoically in Coculture with Acanthamoeba polyphaga and Survive within Cyst Walls
ABSTRACT Protozoans are gaining recognition as environmental hosts for a variety of waterborne pathogens. We compared the growth… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Polyclonal Mycobacterium avium complex infections in patients with nodular bronchiectasis.
Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) isolates among patients with chronic lung disease were studied for their heterogeneity using… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Macrophages as a source of HIV during opportunistic infections.
The source of increasing viremia that characterizes the latter stages of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease has remained… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Identification of the surface-exposed lipids on the cell envelopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacterial species
The surface-exposed lipids of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium gastri… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Evidence that vesicles containing living, virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium avium in cultured human macrophages are not acidic
Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium multiply in cultured human macrophages (MP) within membrane-enclosed vesicles… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Natural history of disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection in AIDS.
This study sought to better characterize the natural history of AIDS-associated disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Infections caused by Mycobacterium avium complex in immunocompromised patients: diagnosis by blood culture and fecal examination, antimicrobial susceptibility tests, and morphological and…
The Mycobacterium avium complex, only rarely described as an invasive pathogen in humans, has recently been reported to… 
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