Volume 16, Number 2—February 2010
Dispatch
Increasing Incidence of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Taiwan, 2000–2008
Chih-Cheng Lai, Che-Kim Tan, Chien-Hong Chou, Hsiao-Leng Hsu, Chun-Hsing Liao, Yu-Tsung Huang, Chuan-Liang Kao, Kwen-Tay Luh, and Po-Ren Hsueh
Table
Frequently isolated nontuberculous mycobacteria, Taiwan
| Bacterial species | Year, no. isolates/no. patients (% isolates/% patients) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
| Mycobacterium avium complex | 102/50 (28.5/25.3) | 38/23 (10.1/10.1) | 244/134 (28.7/27.6) | 328/154 (36.7/38.3) | 340/158 (25.6/23.2) | 449/246 (40.1/44.7) | 314/199 (32.7/34.6) | 375/242 (26.3/33.8) | 571/309 (29.7/32.1) |
| Mycobacterium abscessus |
60/36
(16.8/18.2) |
94/51
(24.9/23.3) |
123/69
(14.6/14.2) |
139/63
(15.6/15.6) |
163/85
(12.3/12.5) |
181/91
(16.5/16.5) |
199/98
(20.7/17.0) |
250/140
(16.9/19.6) |
400/191
(20.8/19.8) |
| Total | 358/198 | 378/219 | 841/485 | 893/402 | 1,327/679 | 1,098/550 | 961/575 | 1,424/716 | 1,924/962 |
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