The incidence of tuberculosis in the United States declined steadily until 1985, while at the
same time, for at least the past 15 years, the frequency of disease attributable to other …

As the prevalence of tuberculosis has decreased, diseases due to nontuberculous
mycobacteria have assumed a greater importance, and the common occurrence of …

The clinically important nontuberculous mycobacteria include M. kansasii, M. genavense, M.
marinum, M. simiae, M. scrofulaceum and M. szulgai, M. avium, M. haemophilum, M …

The purpose of this review is to familiarize a broad range of medical professionals with a
relatively new and growing problem of infections caused by mycobacteria other than M …

Nontuberculous mycobacteria are human opportunistic pathogens whose source of infection
is the environment. These include both slow‐growing (eg, Mycobacterium kansasii and …

The nontuberculous mycobacteria include those Mycobacterium species that are not
members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; hence the use of the terms …

Between 1981 and 1990, cultures of specimens from 86 patients at State University of New
York-Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn were positive for nontuberculous mycobacteria …

The rate of isolation of mycobacteria other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MOTT) has
increased over the past several years; in some areas the isolation rate for Mycobacterium …

Context.—Nontuberculous mycobacteria include numerous acid-fast bacilli species, many of
which have only recently been recognized as pathogenic. The diagnosis of mycobacterial …

Over the last decades, the rate of isolation of tubercle bacilli has declined in the developed
countries, while the incidence of infection with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has …