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MAC

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Mycobacterium avium complex
2 related organisms:
1. M. avium
2. M. Intracellulare

Cultured in solid + liquid media

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Virulent or avirulent to normal host??
BUT CAN CAUSE ……… in …. pts.

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Relatively avirulent to normal host BUT can cause disseminated disease in AIDS patients

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Where is MAC found?

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Found: soil, water (natural water sources, pools, spas, hot tabs) & animals – acquired, ingestion or inhalation - No person-person transmission

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—3 major disease syndromes
Associated with/ caused by :
MAC

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  1. Pulmonary disease, usually adults with intact immune system
  2. Disseminated disease in patients with AIDS
  3. Cervical lymphadenitis
    • Disease rises from primary acquisition, NOT from latency reactivation
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Most common source
. (MAC

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Most common source = exposure to recirculating hot water systems
(Jacuzzi?)

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Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) – pulmonary disease

Risk factors

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COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), chronic bronchiectasis, prior hospitalization for pneumonia, use of steroids

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Pulmonary disease
MoT

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Inhalation, disease may not manifest for months or yrs, smoking & COPD is risk factor

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Pulmonary disease
Signs symptoms

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CHRONIC illness, middle aged man + heavy smoking, COPD, bronchiectasis, cancer—
Chronic productive cough, weight loss, fever, night sweats

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Rate of cavitation
TB vs MAC (pulmonary disease)

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Rate of cavitation may be higher than TBC

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(MAC) – disseminated disease

Associated with

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Associated with AIDS & CD4 count <100 (in most cases, CD4 are <50)

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-(MAC) – disseminated disease
MoT

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Ingestion (most cases) or inhalation – dissemination after localized lung or gut infection

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(MAC) – disseminated disease
What happens?

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Bacteraemia & dissemination to liver, spleen, nodes & bone marrow

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(MAC) – disseminated disease
(( not highlighted)) symptoms

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(‘Fever, weight loss, severe anemia, night sweats, abdominal pain, hepatosplenomegaly, intra-
abdominal lymphadenopathy)
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Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) – lymphadenitis
MoT

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Cervical or abdominal lymphadenitis if ingested, thoracic lymphadenitis if inhaled

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-(MAC) – lymphadenitis
Appearance

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Usually granulomas w/o caseation (forms a firm, dry mass like cheese in appearance), may ulcerate & form fistulas

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Cervicofacial lymphadenitis

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((Cervicofacial lymphadenitis is mostly seen in children between 1-5y/o (>80% of cases) ))

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(MAC) – diagnosis

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• Culture PLUS compatible symptoms & signs
• Patients with COPD or CF may have (+) sputum culture w/o disease (colonized)
• Culture: 21d for solid & 14d for liquid media, samples: sputum, BAL, lymph node biopsy, liver
• Disseminated disease: blood or bone marrow cultures (+) in >90%

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‘Mycobacterium leprae

Causative agent of?

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Causative agent of “Leprosy” or “Hansen’s disease”. Before antibiotics, leprosy patients were isolated in leprosaria (hospital for people with it) & left to die
Leprosy is NOT a highly contagious disease, it is curable

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Mycobacterium leprae

Tx

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: Clofazimine & Rifampin in 1970s. Dapsone in 1980s – curable disease.

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Mycobacterium leprae - epidemiology
Patients under Tx …
Countries

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‘Patients under Tx no longer transmit,

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Mycobacterium leprae
Can it be grown

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M. leprae cannot be cultivate

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Mycobacterium leprae
MoT

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Transmission poorly understood - probably respiratory & nasal secretions

Skin to skin contact cannot be excluded as mode of transmission, nor documented – shaking hands, hugs – NOT RISK FACTOR
• Prolonged close contact over months or years with a patient with untreated leprosy is needed

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‘Natural reservoir:

Mycobacterium leprae

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. !armadillos!, chimpanzees & monkeys

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.–Mycobacterium leprae
Diagnosis

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Microbiology
• Aerobic intracellular, acid-fast bacillus

Staining
• Stains with gram stain (positive) & acid-fast stain

Culture
• Cannot be cultured in laboratory media – in vitro
Immunology
• !Adaptive cellular immunity! is the cornerstone for controlling infection
• Leprosy = prototype of clinical manifestations associated with level of immunity
• !Clinical findings correlate with the spectrum of immunological response

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Leprosy classification system WHO classification system - 2 subtypes
1. Paucibacillary: <5 skin lesions AND -ve skin slit smears for Acid fast bacilli 2. Multibacillary: >5 skin lesions + positive skin slit smears for AFB
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Ridley-Jopling classification system – 5 types
Ridley-Jopling classification system – 5 types change over time 1. Tuberculoid (TT) 2. Borderline tuberculoid (BT) 3. Mid-borderline (BB) 4. Borderline lepromatous (BL) 5. Lepromatous leprosy (LL) • Patients with TT or LL have stable cell-mediated immunity – clinical manifestations do not change over time • Patients with borderline disease, unstable cellular immunity – clinical manifestations change over time – upgrade to TT if immunity becomes stronger, or downgrade to LL if immunity wanes/ declines
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M. leprae histology Tuberculoid leprosy (TT) . Lepromatous leprosy (LL)
TT: Strong cellular immunity - well formed granulomas -abundant lymphocytes- few bacilli LL: Defects in cellular immunity – w/o well formed granulomas – less lymphocytes – many bacilli
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M. leprae Pathology
• !! Peripheral sensory nerve damage = leading cause of functional morbidity in pts with leprosy!! • Damage directly by M. leprae or the immune response . • Main findings: hypopigmented, erythematous or infiltrative skin lesions, with or w/o neurologic signs/symptoms (hypoesthesia, weakness, autonomic dysfunction, peripheral nerve thickening) • These vary significantly between the subtypes of disease .'
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M. leprae – manifestations Tuberculoid leprosy (TT) & stable BT
strong cellular immunity, few bacilli • Macules or plaques, well defined borders, significant sensory loss . • As immunity moves towards BB – ! lesions becomes irregular, increase in number, have decreased sensation ! but not fully like TT
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Lepromatous leprosy & stable BL Manifestations
'Lepromatous leprosy & stable BL – ! non efficacious immunity !, high bacilli load • Innumerable macules or plaques, become infiltrated & nodular - Lepromatous Leprosy = most severe form, lesions usually have intact sensation , • Infiltrative dermopathy, mostly in cool sites (earlobes, central portion of face) – LEONINE FACES, hair loss of eyelashes, eyebrows • Involvement of eye, nasal mucosa (septal perforation), larynx, kidney, liver • Bone involvement; bone resorption, ! loss of digits ! • Marked peripheral nerve thickening, esp. ulnar, median & posterior tibial
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M. leprae - diagnosis
Skin slit smears • Small incision through epidermis, scraping dermal surface, smear scrapings on glass slide, stain with Ziehl-Nielsen or Fite stain Skin or nerve biopsy • Demonstration of bacilli (for TT spectrum, non caseating granulomas, for Lepromatous, foamy macrophages filled with bacilli & no granulomas)
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'Leprosy reactions Type 1
Leprosy type 1 reactions – reversal reactions • Leading cause of neurologic impairment in leprosy – with all stages except TT • Development of acute, new, painful & tender erythematous subcutaneous nodules • Increased in erythema, warmth & occasional ulceration of pre-existing plaques & nodules • Increased swelling & tenderness of peripheral nerves, systemic symptoms & signs rare
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Leprosy type 2 reactions
Leprosy type 2 reactions – Erythema Nodosum Leprosum -• Deposition of antigen-antibody complexes to skin, mostly BL & LL patients within first 2yrs after Tx • Development of acute, new, painful & tender erythematous subcutaneous nodules • Also may involve internal organs: arthritis, neuritis, iridocyclitis, orchitis etc. • Systemic symptoms are common: high fever, malaise, can be fatal in severe cases

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