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What is MAI in sputum?
Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection (MAI) is an atypical mycobacterial infection, i.e. one with nontuberculous mycobacteria or NTM, caused by Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), which is made of two Mycobacterium species, M.
What is MAI lung condition?
MAC lung disease is an infection caused a group of bacteria called Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). MAC includes two closely related species, Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare, and may also be referred to as MAI.
Can MAI be cured?
Can MAC lung disease be cured? Providers consider MAC lung disease to be cured if sputum cultures show no evidence of infection for 12 months. But the infection can come back, either from a new exposure or lingering bacteria in the lungs, especially since the condition that made you susceptible to MAC is still present.
What is MAI medicine?
Mycobacterium Avium Complex (MAC) (Mycobacterium Avium-Intracellulare [MAI]) Medication: Antibiotics.
What causes MAI infection?
MAI can be isolated from many environmental sources including soil and water. Transmission of the pathogen is thought to be due to inhalation or ingestion of the organism (inhalation for pulmonary disease).
What are the symptoms of MAI?
Cutaneous disease. Cutaneous MAI infection should be suspected when an individual who is immunocompromised presents with obscure skin lesions. Additional symptoms may suggest disseminated disease, including fatigue, fever, diarrhea, weight loss, back or bone pain, shortness of breath, and/or cough.
How do you get MAI infection?
Is MAI lung disease contagious?
A: “Mycobacterium avium intracellulare” (MAI) or “Mycobacterium avium Complex” (MAC) is an atypical NON-TB germ (micro-organism). MAC is related to the tuberculosis germ, but is not contagious and the MAC microbes live in the environment.
Is MAI a chronic lung disease?
MAI infection can cause chronic pulmonary disease, lymphadenitis and disseminated disease especially in immunodeficient patients. Of interest, MAI infection has been seen with frequency in elderly woman who appear to have no predisposing conditions.