title: [Epidemiologic and microbiologic aspects of mycobacteriosis in Slovakia. M. avium complex].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Mycobacteria belonging to M. Avium Complex (MAC) are strains very similar in structure and biochemistry but very different from the point of serology.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  They are divided into 28 serotypes. The objective of the research is to describe the epidemiological situation in mycobacterioses caused by Mycobacterium Avium Complex in Slovakia and to compare it with the situation in the developed countries.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study is methodologically based on the surveillance of tuberculosis and applied to the problem of mycobacterioses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During the period of 19 years we have registered in Slovakia 43 new cases caused by Mycobacterium Avium Complex. The number of new cases per year ranged from 0 to 4 cases. The majority of cases were males in permanent residence in Slovakia. 74.4% of them were from central and eastern Slovakia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Over the past 19 years the stabilized trend of incidence of mycobacterioses caused by Mycobacterium Complex has not changed. (Ref. 22.)
authors.affiliation: Skola verejného zdravotnictva pri Institúte pre d'alsie vzdelávanie pracovnikov v zdravotnictve v Bratislave, Slovakia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Badalík
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Svejnochová
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Honzátková
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kristúfek
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D018154:Slovakia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Epidemiologické a mikrobiologické aspekty mykobakterióz na Slovensku. M. avium komplex.