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*[http://img.medscape.com/fullsize/migrated/576/467/smj576467.fig2.gif Leprosy (medscape.com)].<ref>URL: [http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/576467_2 http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/576467_2]. Accessed on: 2 January 2012.</ref>

*[http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/orfpath/images/fig140x.jpg Leprosy (meddean.luc.edu)].<ref>URL: [http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/orfpath/bfsrinf.htm http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/orfpath/bfsrinf.htm]. Accessed on: 1 April 2012.</ref>

==Mycobacterium avium complex==

*Abbreviated ''MAC''.

*Previously referred to as ''Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare'', abbreviated ''MAI''.

===General===

*Refers to an infection with both:<ref name=pmid17428883>{{Cite journal | last1 = Turenne | first1 = CY. | last2 = Wallace | first2 = R. | last3 = Behr | first3 = MA. | title = Mycobacterium avium in the postgenomic era. | journal = Clin Microbiol Rev | volume = 20 | issue = 2 | pages = 205-29 | month = Apr | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1128/CMR.00036-06 | PMID = 17428883 | PMC = 1865596 | URL = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1865596/?tool=pubmed }}</ref>

**''Mycobacterium avium''

**''Mycobacterium intracellulare''.

===Microscopic===

Features:

*Small rod-shaped organisms - within histocytes.

*+/-Granulomas.

DDx:

*[[Whipple disease]] - esp. in the [[duodenum]].

===Stains===

*AFB +ve.

==Coxiella burnetii==

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 *[http://img.medscape.com/fullsize/migrated/576/467/smj576467.fig2.gif Leprosy (medscape.com)].<ref>URL: [http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/576467_2 http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/576467_2]. Accessed on: 2 January 2012.</ref>
 *[http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/orfpath/images/fig140x.jpg Leprosy (meddean.luc.edu)].<ref>URL: [http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/orfpath/bfsrinf.htm http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/orfpath/bfsrinf.htm]. Accessed on: 1 April 2012.</ref>
+==Mycobacterium avium complex==
+*Abbreviated ''MAC''.
+*Previously referred to as ''Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare'', abbreviated ''MAI''.
+===General===
+*Refers to an infection with  both:<ref name=pmid17428883>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Turenne | first1 = CY. | last2 = Wallace | first2 = R. | last3 = Behr | first3 = MA. | title = Mycobacterium avium in the postgenomic era. | journal = Clin Microbiol Rev | volume = 20 | issue = 2 | pages = 205-29 | month = Apr | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1128/CMR.00036-06 | PMID = 17428883 | PMC = 1865596 | URL = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1865596/?tool=pubmed }}</ref>
+**''Mycobacterium avium''
+**''Mycobacterium intracellulare''.
+===Microscopic===
+Features:
+*Small rod-shaped organisms - within histocytes.
+*+/-Granulomas.
+DDx:
+*[[Whipple disease]] - esp. in the [[duodenum]].
+===Stains===
+*AFB +ve.
 ==Coxiella burnetii==