Glossary of HIV/AIDS Terms
This glossary contains 1,600 terms and is maintained by the editors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS.
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Mycobacterium avium (acronym MAC): an opportunistic illness caused by Mycobacterium avium or Mycobacterium intracellulare (sometimes referred to as Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, or MAI), bacteria found in soil and water. In immunosuppressed persons (usually with