Mycobacterium avium bacteremia and dual infection with mycobacterium avium and mycobacterium wolinskyi in the gut of an aids patient – First case report.

An AIDS patient was admitted to a tertiary care hospital in central India with fever, weight loss, breathlessness, night sweats, diarrhoea, BMI 14kg/m2, Hemoglobin 8gm% and CD4 counts 120 cells/cumm. His blood culture by BACTEC 460 TB system revealed Mycobacterium avium bacteremia and stool culture grew Mycobacterium avium and mycobacterium wolinskyi.