"Mycobacterium avium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A bacterium causing tuberculosis in domestic fowl and other birds. In pigs, it may cause localized and sometimes disseminated disease. The organism occurs occasionally in sheep and cattle. It should be distinguished from the M. avium complex, which infects primarily humans.
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D009162
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.510.024.049.525.500.300 B03.510.460.400.410.552.552.300
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mycobacterium avium" by people in Profiles.
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Rare epigenetic alterations are conserved across hematopoietic differentiation stages after mycobacterial infection. JCI Insight. 2026 01 23; 11(2).
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Chronic Infection Depletes Hematopoietic Stem Cells through Stress-Induced Terminal Differentiation. Cell Rep. 2016 12 06; 17(10):2584-2595.
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Subspecies identification and significance of 257 clinical strains of Mycobacterium avium. J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Apr; 52(4):1201-6.
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Etiology of Crohn's disease: the role of Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis. Trends Mol Med. 2001 Jun; 7(6):247-52.
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Characterization of the alanine racemases from two mycobacteria. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2001 Mar 15; 196(2):93-8.
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Management of nontuberculous mycobacterial cervical adenitis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2000 Jul; 19(7):674-5.
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Identification of Mycobacterium avium complex in sarcoidosis. J Clin Microbiol. 1996 Sep; 34(9):2240-5.
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Mycobacterium avium antigenuria in patients with AIDS and disseminated M. avium disease. J Infect Dis. 1993 Aug; 168(2):466-8.
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Polymerase chain reaction detection of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium subsp silvaticum in long term cultures from Crohn's disease and control tissues. Gut. 1992 Sep; 33(9):1209-13.
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Nucleic acid hybridization studies of mycobactin-dependent mycobacteria. J Clin Microbiol. 1988 Jul; 26(7):1309-12.