RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The geographic diversity of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from pulmonary samples: an NTM-NET collaborative study
JF European Respiratory Journal
JO Eur Respir J
FD European Respiratory Society
SP 1604
OP 1613
DO 10.1183/09031936.00149212
VO 42
IS 6
A1 Hoefsloot, Wouter
A1 van Ingen, Jakko
A1 Andrejak, Claire
A1 Ängeby, Kristian
A1 Bauriaud, Rosine
A1 Bemer, Pascale
A1 Beylis, Natalie
A1 Boeree, Martin J.
A1 Cacho, Juana
A1 Chihota, Violet
A1 Chimara, Erica
A1 Churchyard, Gavin
A1 Cias, Raquel
A1 Daza, Rosa
A1 Daley, Charles L.
A1 Dekhuijzen, P.N. Richard
A1 Domingo, Diego
A1 Drobniewski, Francis
A1 Esteban, Jaime
A1 Fauville-Dufaux, Maryse
A1 Folkvardsen, Dorte Bek
A1 Gibbons, Noel
A1 Gómez-Mampaso, Enrique
A1 Gonzalez, Rosa
A1 Hoffmann, Harald
A1 Hsueh, Po-Ren
A1 Indra, Alexander
A1 Jagielski, Tomasz
A1 Jamieson, Frances
A1 Jankovic, Mateja
A1 Jong, Eefje
A1 Keane, Joseph
A1 Koh, Wo-Jung
A1 Lange, Berit
A1 Leao, Sylvia
A1 Macedo, Rita
A1 Mannsåker, Turid
A1 Marras, Theodore K.
A1 Maugein, Jeannette
A1 Milburn, Heather J.
A1 Mlinkó, Tamas
A1 Morcillo, Nora
A1 Morimoto, Kozo
A1 Papaventsis, Dimitrios
A1 Palenque, Elia
A1 Paez-Peña, Mar
A1 Piersimoni, Claudio
A1 Polanová, Monika
A1 Rastogi, Nalin
A1 Richter, Elvira
A1 Ruiz-Serrano, Maria Jesus
A1 Silva, Anabela
A1 da Silva, M. Pedro
A1 Simsek, Hulya
A1 van Soolingen, Dick
A1 Szabó, Nora
A1 Thomson, Rachel
A1 Tórtola Fernandez, Teresa
A1 Tortoli, Enrico
A1 Totten, Sarah E.
A1 Tyrrell, Greg
A1 Vasankari, Tuula
A1 Villar, Miguel
A1 Walkiewicz, Renata
A1 Winthrop, Kevin L.
A1 Wagner, Dirk
YR 2013
UL https://publications.ersnet.org//content/42/6/1604.abstract
AB A significant knowledge gap exists concerning the geographical distribution of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolation worldwide. To provide a snapshot of NTM species distribution, global partners in the NTM-Network European Trials Group (NET) framework (www.ntm-net.org), a branch of the Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (TB-NET), provided identification results of the total number of patients in 2008 in whom NTM were isolated from pulmonary samples. From these data, we visualised the relative distribution of the different NTM found per continent and per country. We received species identification data for 20 182 patients, from 62 laboratories in 30 countries across six continents. 91 different NTM species were isolated. Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) bacteria predominated in most countries, followed by M. gordonae and M. xenopi. Important differences in geographical distribution of MAC species as well as M. xenopi, M. kansasii and rapid-growing mycobacteria were observed. This snapshot demonstrates that the species distribution among NTM isolates from pulmonary specimens in the year 2008 differed by continent and differed by country within these continents. These differences in species distribution may partly determine the frequency and manifestations of pulmonary NTM disease in each geographical location. Species distribution among nontuberculous mycobacteria isolates from pulmonary specimens is geographically diverse http://ow.ly/npu6r