Volume 18, Number 3—March 2012
Letter
Prevalence of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infection, China, 2004–2009
Hui Jing, Haiying Wang, Yan Wang, Yunfeng Deng, Xinxin Li, Zhimin Liu, Edward A. Graviss, and Xin Ma
Table
Species and drug-resistance profiles of 64 nontuberculous mycobacteria strains, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China, 2004–2009
| Mycobacterium species | Resistant strains, no. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Isoniazid | Rifampin | Ethambutol | Streptomycin | |
| M. intracellulare | 52 (81.2) | 52 (100) | 40 (76.9) | 27 (51.9) | 51 (98.1) |
| M. kansasii | 5 (7.8) | 5 (100) | 3 (60.0) | 0 | 5 (100) |
| M. fortuitum | 3 (4.7) | 3 (100) | 3 (100) | 2 (66.7) | 3 (100) |
| M. chelonae | 2 (3.1) | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | 2 (100) |
| M. gordonae | 1 (1.6) | 1 (100) | 1 (100) | 1 (100) | 1 (100) |
| M. scrofulaceum | 1 (1.6) | 1 (100) | 0 | 1 (100) | 1 (100) |
| Total | 64 (100) | 64 (100) | 50 (78.1) | 33 (51.6) | 63 (98.4) |
