Non Tuberculous Mycobacteria:
Characterizing non-tuberculous mycobacteria infection in bronchiectasis
... * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +39-02-5032-0627 or +39-33-9417-1538 Academic Editor: William Chi-shing Cho Received: 16 September 2016; Accepted: 7 November 2016; Published: 16 November 2016 Abstract: ...
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Factors predisposing to non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease in the patients with respiratory isolates of non-tuberculous mycobacteria.
... Conclusions: The risk factors of NTMLD recognition in the presented group of patients were the following: female gender, M. kansasii isolation, as well as past tuberculosis or mycobacteriosis. Key words: ...
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Isolation and characterization of Non tuberculous Mycobacteria from clinical specimens
... India, Non tuberculous mycobacterial infections are under diagnosed and undertreated when compared to developed ...the Non tuberculous mycobacteria is also very minimal in South ...
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The Italian registry of pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacteria - IRENE: the study protocol
... Pulmonary disease due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has always been a tangible clinical entity [1]. An in- crease in NTM pulmonary and extra-pulmonary morbidity and mortality has been ...
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Molecular identification of non-tuberculous mycobacteria isolated from clinical specimens in Zambia
... by Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria ...other Non-tuberculous mycobacterial species have been isolated from both immunocompromised and immunocompetent ...a non-pathogenic species not ...
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High Rates of Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria Isolation in Mozambican Children with Presumptive Tuberculosis
... bacterium isolates from children in Jimma, Ethiopia. BMC Res Notes [Internet]. 2013; 6:352. Available from: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=3766673&tool= pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract 27. Kordy ...
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Sarcoidosis is a diagnosis of exclusion. Other causes of granuloma (e.g. TB, non- tuberculous mycobacteria
... of non-caseating granulomas with a compatible clinical and radiological ...TB, non-tuberculous mycobacteria and fungi) need to be actively ...
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Isolation and characterization of non tuberculous mycobacteria from humans and animals in Namwala District of Zambia
... stained with carbol fuchsin cannot be decolorized by acid alcohol thus their name ‘ acid fast bacteria ’ [4]. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria encompass all mycobac- teria other than the species ...
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Increase in non tuberculous mycobacteria isolated from humans in Tuscany, Italy, from 2004 to 2014
... 9. Moore JE, Kruijshaar ME, Ormerod LP, Drobniewski F, Abubakar I. Increasing reports of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 1995 – 2006. BMC Public Health. ...
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Mycobacterium arupense among the isolates of non tuberculous mycobacteria from human, animal and environmental samples
... a non-tuberculous, potentially pathogenic species rarely isolated from ...of non-tuberculous mycobacteria within 271 sequenced mycobacterial isolates not belonging to ...
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Profiling non-tuberculous mycobacteria in an Asian setting: characteristics and clinical outcomes of hospitalized patients in Singapore
... Albert Y. H. Lim 1* , Sanjay H. Chotirmall 2 , Eric T. K. Fok 3 , Akash Verma 1 , Partha P. De 4 , Soon Keng Goh 1 , Ser Hon Puah 1 , Daryl E. L. Goh 5 and John A. Abisheganaden 1 Abstract Background: ...
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Clinical and microbiological characteristics of non tuberculous mycobacteria diseases in Singapore with a focus on pulmonary disease, 2012 2016
... 41. Lim AYH, Chotirmall SH, Fok ETK, Verma A, De PP, Goh SK, et al. Profiling non- tuberculous mycobacteria in an Asian setting: characteristics and clinical outcomes of hospitalized patients in ...
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Species diversity of non tuberculous mycobacteria isolated from humans, livestock and wildlife in the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania
... Background: Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), which are ubiquitous micro-organisms occurring in humans, animals and the environment, sometimes receive public health and veterinary attention as ...
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Species and genotypic diversity of non tuberculous mycobacteria isolated from children investigated for pulmonary tuberculosis in rural Uganda
... of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolates from children investigated for pulmonary tuberculosis at a demographic surveillance site in rural eastern ...
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Identification of non tuberculous mycobacteria isolated from clinical specimens at a tertiary care hospital: a cross sectional study
... Discussion Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria have gained much clinical significance in the last couple of decades not only in immuno-compromised but also in immuno-competent ...
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Comparison of polymerase chain reaction-restriction enzyme analysis method and DNA sequence analysis results in the identification of non-tuberculous mycobacteria
... (Received: 9 February 2018; accepted: 3 April 2018) The typing of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is important from a clinical and epidemiological perspective. The polymerase chain ...
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Inventory study of non tuberculous mycobacteria in the European Union
... Based on Croatian, Estonian, Greek, Luxembourgish and Slovenian data, NTM was cultured from between 0.4-2.0% of the specimens. As it can be very difficult to discriminate NTM disease from TB based on symptoms and ...
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Frequency of tuberculous and non tuberculous mycobacteria in HIV infected patients from Bogota, Colombia
... Background Mycobacterium infections are frequent opportunistic pathogens associated with the acquired immunodefi- ciency syndrome (AIDS). Its relative virulence and po- tential for person-to-person transmission ...
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Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in The Gambia: Prevalent Species, Carriage and Disease
... Most of the available data on NTM lung disease prevalence is reported from United States, middle-income Asian countries, and Europe [2, 7, 68]. There are several obstacles in the way of obtaining detailed pulmonary NTM ...
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Non tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in Zambia: prevalence, clinical, radiological and microbiological characteristics
... We present here the Zambia-specific national level data of prevalence, symptomatic, radiological and microbiological characteristics of NTM, using results from a national Tuberculosis (T[r] ...
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