| isolation of mycobacteria from stools and intestinal biopsies from hiv seropositive and hiv seronegative patients with and without diarrhea in kinshasa, zaïre. preliminary results. | to determine the role of mycobacteria as etiologic agent in hiv related enteritis in africa, the following study was performed in 1986, in the department of internal medicine in mama yemo hospital in kinshasa, zaire. stool and intestinal biopsies were obtained from hiv seropositive and hiv seronegative patients with and without diarrhea. patients with known mycobacterium tuberculosis infection were not enrolled. acid fast bacilli were found in fecal smears of 6 (10%) of 59 hiv seropositive patie ... | 1990 | 2291696 |