Volume 16, Number 10—October 2010
CME ACTIVITY
Changing Epidemiology of Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections
Rachel M. Thomson
and on behalf of the NTM working group at the Queensland TB Control CentreQueensland Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory
and on behalf of the NTM working group at the Queensland TB Control CentreQueensland Mycobacterial Reference LaboratoryTable 2
Significance of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolates as notified, Queensland, Australia, 1999 and 2005*
| Nontuberculous mycobacteria isolates | 1999 |
2005 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (%) isolates | Rate/100,000 population | No. (%) isolates | Rate/100,000 population | ||
| Pulmonary | |||||
| Significant | 77 (20.2) | 2.2 | 130 (26.6) | 3.25 | |
| Under evaluation | 1 (0.26) | 0.03 | 52 (10.6) | 1.3 | |
| Not significant |
304 (79.6) |
8.7 |
306 (62.7) |
7.65 |
|
| Extrapulmonary | |||||
| Significant | 106 (78.5) | 2.65 | 98 (68.5) | 2.45 | |
| Under evaluation | 0 | – | 4 (2.8) | – | |
| Not significant | 29 (21.5) | 0.83 | 41 (28.7) | 1.03 | |
*–, not applicable.
