Expression of motility-related molecule Cdc42 in endometrial tissue in women with adenomyosis and ovarian endometriomata.

Objective: To evaluate Cdc42 expression in eutopic and ectopic endometrial tissue in patients with adenomyosis and ovarian endometriotic cysts compared with patients without endometriosis.

Design: Experimental retrospective study.

Setting: University hospital.

Mycobacterium celatum pulmonary infection in the immunocompetent: case report and review.

Mycobacterium celatum has been shown to cause disease in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of serious pulmonary infection caused by M. celatum in an apparently immunocompetent patient and review the characteristics of two other reported cases.

Isolation of Mycobacterium celatum from patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus.

Mycobacterium celatum is a recently described, slowly growing mycobacterium of still undefined clinical relevance. A retrospective study of seven patients was conducted to further elucidate the clinical presentation and prognosis of infection due to M. celatum in patients with AIDS.

Activity of seven antimicrobial agents, alone and in combination, against AIDS-associated isolates of Mycobacterium avium complex.

The activity of seven antimicrobial agents (and five two-drug combinations and five three-drug combinations) was investigated against 37 clinical isolates of Mycobacterium avium recovered from blood cultures of AIDS patients. The susceptibility tests were performed in Middlebrook 7H12 broth using a radiometric method. MICs of amikacin, ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, clofazimine, ethambutol, rifabutin and sparfloxacin were determined.