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Pending a randomized controlled trial, the use of intravenous colistin should be considered in severe infections with Gram-negative bacilli when it remains the only antibiotic to which the causative pathogen is sensitive in vitro .
The increasing prevalence of multiresistant Gram-negative strains in ICUs has recently rekindled interest in colistin [ 8 9 10 11 12 ] , a bactericidal antibiotic that was used in the 1960s for treatment of infections caused by Gram-negative bacilli.
Although multi-species studies are complex and multi-factorial, M. avium appears to be able to survive in secondary lysosomes better than does M. tuberculosis [ 18 ] . In macrophages co-infected with Coxiella burnetii, an intracellular pathogen known to inhabit and replicate within secondary lysosomes [ 19 ] , M. avium growth was not impaired [ 18 ] . Whereas M. tuberculosis bacilli that co-localized with C. burnetii containing vacuoles, did show reduced growth [ 18 ] . A recent report by Thomsen et al.
Study subjects who were acid-fast bacilli sputum smear and culture negative at the one-year follow-up sputum examination were considered cured.
Between March 1993 and March 1995, 18 to 50 year old HIV-infected patients with initial episodes of sputum acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear-positive, culture-confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis were enrolled at the National Tuberculosis Treatment Center, Kampala, Uganda in a prospective cohort study.