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MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Oct 14 7:37am | Replies (15)

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Monotherapy is usually discouraged as your body could quickly develop resistance to the antibiotic. This technique was actually developed during the hiv/aids epidemic of 1999

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Rick you are reminding me of how much we owe to the doctors and and the HIV/AIDS patients they treated. From what I've read, MAC/NTM was virtually unheard of outside of organ transplant patients with drastically suppressed immunity, until people with AIDS started dying from it.