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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://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> | *[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== | ==Coxiella burnetii== | ||