The invention discloses a real-time fluorescent PCR method for detecting mycobacterium avium (MA) and an application of primer pairs. The invention provides the specific primer pairs, and establishesthe real-time fluorescent PCR method for detecting the MA based on SYBR Green I fluorescent dye. The method has high sensitivity, good specificity and good reproducibility, and has the advantages of acheaper price and easier operation compared with those of methods such as a DNA chip technology and a PCR-fingerprint; compared with a current ''gold standard'' of strain identification, the method has no significant differences for detecting the MA, and the simple, cheap, and highly accurate molecular biology method is provided for clinical identification of the MA; the method improves the workefficiency of inexperienced experimental technicians, reduces the difficulty of experimental operation, and reduces the probability of errors, so that the experimental technicians can perform experiments after being trained; and compared with other molecular biology methods, in the case of having higher diagnostic accuracy, the method provided by the invention reduces costs, reduces experimental funds, and is easier to promote clinically.