ABSTRACT
Forty-two patients with pulmonary mycobacteriosis were clinically characterized. In most patients, mycobacteriosis developed in the presence of residual changes in the lungs after cured tuberculosis. The torpid onset of mycobacteriosis with a gradual augmentation of symptoms of intoxication was observed. All the examinees were found to have destructive lung tissue changes that were characterized by the presence of caverns with a significantly transformed lung pattern.
Subject(s)
Lung Diseases/microbiology , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous , Adult , Female , Humans , Lung Diseases/diagnosis , Male , Middle Aged , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/diagnosis , Mycobacterium avium Complex/isolation & purification , Mycobacterium fortuitum/isolation & purification , Mycobacterium xenopi/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
Clinical manifestations of mycobacteriosis in 22 patients aged 16-35 are described. In males and females the disease was caused by M. avium and M. fortuitum, predisposed by exposure to occupational hazards and previous bronchopulmonary and general somatic diseases, respectively. In x-ray pictures of the lungs there appeared unilateral lesion in the upper lobe of the right lung.
