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Volume 22, Number 6—June 2016
Letter

Epidemiology of Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease, Japan1

Ho Namkoong, Atsuyuki KurashimaComments to Author , Kozo Morimoto, Yoshihiko Hoshino, Naoki Hasegawa, Manabu Ato, and Satoshi Mitarai
Author affiliations: Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (H. Namkoong, N. Hasegawa); Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo (A. Kurashima, K. Morimoto, S. Mitarai); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo (Y. Hoshino, M. Ato); Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan (S. Mitarai)

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Incidence (no. cases/100,000 person-years) of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) disease, culture-positive tuberculosis (TB), and smear-positive TB in Japan during 1980–2014. The nationwide survey revealed that the incidence rate of pulmonary NTM disease exceeds that of TB. The epidemiologic survey before 1988 was conducted annually by the same research group; subsequently, another group performed the epidemiologic survey only in 2001 and 2007.

Figure. Incidence (no. cases/100,000 person-years) of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) disease, culture-positive tuberculosis (TB), and smear-positive TB in Japan during 1980–2014. The nationwide survey revealed that the incidence rate of pulmonary NTM disease exceeds that of TB. The epidemiologic survey before 1988 was conducted annually by the same research group; subsequently, another group performed the epidemiologic survey only in 2001 and 2007.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the American Thoracic Society 2015 International Conference; 2015 May 15–20; Denver, Colorado, USA (http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2015.191.1_MeetingAbstracts.A5268).

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