Abstract

MEDEROS CUERVO, LM et al. Systemic mycobacteriosis for Mycobacterium avium in a AIDS patient. AVFT [online]. 2009, vol.28, n.2, pp.61-62. ISSN 0798-0264.

Several sputum and blood culture simples from a Cuban HIV/AIDS patient were analyzed to discard the presence of alcohol acid resistant bacillus. After 2-3 weeks the culture revealed in both kinds of samples some colonies from non-pigmented mycobacterium strain with slow growth and belonging to III Runyon Group. This strain was classified as Mycobacterium avium by conventional methods established for mycobacterium identification. To diagnostic confirmative method was used the analysis of fraction mycolic acid by bi-dimensional thin layer chromatography. The main objective of this study was to report the first case of systemic mycobacteriosis in a Cuban HIV/AIDS patient.

Keywords : opportunistic mycobacteria; AIDS; Mycobacterium avium.