Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection as a Rare Cause of Cerebral Mass Lesion and IRIS in a Patient With AIDS: Case Report and Review of the Literature.
Courtney Lane-DonovanEmma BainbridgeJohn SzumowskiAndrew D KerkhoffMichael J PelusoPublished in: Open forum infectious diseases (2021)
A patient with advanced HIV/AIDS presented with a brain abscess. While brain biopsy culture and pathology were unrevealing, universal broad-range polymerase chain reaction (uPCR) demonstrated Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). We review the clinicopathologic characteristics of MAC brain abscesses and highlight the effectiveness of uPCR as a diagnostic tool in partially treated infections.