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Volume 20, Number 7—July 2014
Letter

Prevalence and Drug Resistance of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Northern China, 2008–2011

Xiaobo Wang1, Hao Li1, Guanglu Jiang, Liping Zhao, Yifeng Ma, Babak Javid, and Hairong HuangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Institute, Beijing, China (X. Wang, G. Jiang, L. Zhao, Y. Ma, H. Huang); Tsinghua University, Beijing (H. Li, B. Javid); Collaborative Innovation Centre for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Disease, Hangzhou, China (B. Javid)

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Table

Species and drug-resistance profiles of 95 nontuberculous mycobacteria strains, northern China, 2008–2011*

Drugs No. (%) resistant strains in Mycobacterium spp.
Total
M. intracellulare M.abscessus M.fortuitum M. gordonae M.kansassi M. avium M.parascrofulaceum
INH 37 (97.37) 28 (100) 7 (87.5) 6 (75) 3 (42.86) 5 (100) 1 (100) 87 (91.58)
RIF 34 (89.47) 28 (100) 7 (87.5) 2 (25) 0 5 (100) 1 (100) 77 (81.05)
EMB 4 (10.53) 26 (92.86) 7 (87.5) 1 (12.5) 0 2 (40) 0 40 (42.11)
SM 38 (100) 28 (100) 7 (87.5) 4 (50) 6 (85.71) 5 (100) 1 (100) 89 (93.68)
CPM 31 (81.58) 26 (92.86) 4 (50) 1 (12.5) 2 (28.57) 3 (60) 1 (100) 68 (71.58)
AK 31 (81.58) 25 (89.29) 4 (50) 1 (12.5) 1 (14.29) 4 (80) 0 66 (69.43)
PTO 25 (65.79) 27 (96.43) 6 (75) 4 (50) 0 4 (80) 1 (100) 67 (70.53)
PAS 38 (100) 28 (100) 7 (87.5) 8 (100) 7 (100) 4 (80) 1 (100) 93 (97.89)
OFLX 38 (100) 28 (100) 3 (37.5) 3 (37.5) 1 (14.29) 5 (100) 1 (100) 79 (83.16)
LVFX
36 (94.74)
28 (100)
3 (37.5)
2 (25)
0
5 (100)
1 (100)
75 (78.95)
Total 38 (40) 28 (29.47) 8 (8.42) 8 (8.42) 7 (7.37) 5 (5.26) 1 (1.05) 95 (100)

*INH, isoniazid; RIF, rifampin; EMB, ethambutol; SM, streptomycin; CPM, capreomycin; AK, amikacin; PTO, protionamide; PAS, para-aminosalicylic acid; OFLX, ofloxacin; LVFX, levofloxacin.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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