Mycobacteria

Small bowel (small intestine)
Infectious disorders
Mycobacteria

Author: Hanni Gulwani, M.D. (see Authors page)

Revised: 14 February 2018, last major update August 2012

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PubMed Search: Mycobacteria[TIAB] small bowel

See also: Tuberculosis

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Cite this page: Gulwani, H. Mycobacteria. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/smallbowelmycobacteria.html. Accessed April 21st, 2018.

Definition / general

Aerobic and nonmotile bacteria without endospores or capsules that typically cause small bowel disease only in immunosuppressed or HIV+, usually as part of disseminated infection

Case reports

31 year old woman with HIV and upper GI bleeding (Clin Infect Dis 2009;48:321, Clin Infect Dis 2009;48:368 [answer to quiz])

Microscopic (histologic) description

Foamy macrophages fill lamina propria
Usually patchy, no fat vacuoles

Microscopic (histologic) images

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Disseminated Mycobacterium
avium intracellulare complex
(MAC) with nodular infiltration
of duodenum

Positive stains

PAS (faintly positive bacillary forms), acid fast stains

Differential diagnosis

Whipple disease