Patients with nontuberculous mycobacteria: comparison of updated and previous diagnostic criteria for lung disease.
We classified patients with respiratory nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolates using updated (2007) and previous (1997) American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America criteria for NTM lung disease. We found that a greater proportion of such patients have disease using updated criteria due to improved sensitivity of the microbiologic component of the disease definition.
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA. mcnelley@ohsu.edu
Erin
E
Epson
Maureen
M
Cassidy
Angela
A
Marshall-Olson
Katrina
K
Hedberg
Kevin L
KL
Winthrop
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D009170:Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D015995:Prevalence