Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Dispatch
Pulmonary Infection and Colonization with Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Taiwan, 2000–2012
Jung-Yien Chien, Chih-Cheng Lai, Wang-Huei Sheng, Chong-Jen Yu, and Po-Ren Hsueh
Table 2
Bacterial species implicated in pulmonary mycobacterial infections and colonization/contamination, by patient sex and age, Taiwan, 2000–2012
| Bacterial species | Sex, % (no.) patients |
p value | Age, y, % (no.) patients |
p value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female, n = 4,931 | Male, n = 8,721 | <24, n = 572 | 25–44, n = 1,792 | 45–64, n = 4,062 | 65–84, n = 6,156 | >85, n = 1,070 | |||
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection |
35.0 (1,725) |
47.6 (4,153) |
<0.01 |
67.8 (388) |
53.3 (956) |
38.9 (1,579) |
40.9 (2,519) |
40.7 (436) |
<0.01 |
| NTM probable infection | |||||||||
| M. avium–intracellulare complex | 13.1 (645) | 8.4 (732) | <0.01 | 3.7 (21) | 6.3 (113) | 11.1 (449) | 10.3 (637) | 14.7 (157) | <0.01 |
| M. abscessus | 6.8 (334) | 4.3 (376) | <0.01 | 2.3 (13) | 5.7 (102) | 5.9 (241) | 4.5 (275) | 7.4 (79) | <0.01 |
| M. fortuitum | 2.7 (132) | 3.6 (311) | <0.01 | 1.2 (7) | 1.8 (33) | 3.8 (155) | 3.5 (218) | 2.8 (30) | <0.01 |
| M. chelonae | 3.0 (148) | 1.9 (164) | <0.01 | 2.6 (15) | 1.9 (34) | 2.9 (116) | 2.0 (122) | 2.3 (25) | 0.04 |
| M. kansasii | 1.2 (61) | 2.0 (173) | <0.01 | 0.7 (4) | 2.1 (38) | 1.9 (77) | 1.7 (105) | 0.9 (10) | 0.04 |
| M. gordonae | 1.1 (55) | 1.3 (110) | 0.5 | 0.5 (3) | 0.4 (8) | 1.3 (52) | 1.5 (91) | 1.0 (11) | <0.01 |
| Other | 0.6 (31) | 0.5 (45) | 0.4 | 0 | 0.7 (12) | 0.7 (28) | 0.5 (31) | 0.5 (5) | 0.22 |
| M. terrae complex | 0.2 (8) | 0.1 (9) | – | 0 | 0.2 (4) | 0.1 (4) | 0.1 (8) | 0.1 (1) | – |
| M. scrofulaceum | 0.2 (8) | 0.1 (7) | – | 0 | 0 | 0.2 (9) | 0.1 (6) | 0 | – |
| M. phlei | 0.1 (5) | 0.1 (9) | – | 0 | 0.3 (5) | 0.1 (3) | 0.1 (5) | 0.1 (1) | – |
| M. smegmatis | 0 | 0.1 (10) | – | 0 | 0.1 (1) | 0.0 (2) | 0.1 (5) | 0.2 (2) | – |
| M. xenopi | 0.1 (4) | 0.1 (6) | – | 0 | 0.1 (1) | 0.0 (2) | 0.1 (6) | 0.1 (1) | – |
| M. flavescens | 0.1 (4) | 0 | – | 0 | 0.1 (1) | 0.1 (3) | 0 | 0 | – |
| M. celatum | 0 | 0.0 (2) | – | 0 | 0 | 0.0 (2) | 0 | 0 | – |
| M. asiaticum | 0 | 0.0 (1) | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 (1) | 0 | – |
| M. mageritense | 0 | 0.0 (1) | – | 0 | 0 | 0.0 (1) | 0 | 0 | – |
| M. szulgai | 0.0 (1) | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0.0 (1) | 0 | 0 | – |
| M. vaccae |
0.0 (1) |
0 |
– |
0 |
0 |
0.0 (1) |
0 |
0 |
– |
| NTM colonization/contamination | |||||||||
| M. avium–intracellulare complex | 10.6 (525) | 8.9 (779) | <0.01 | 4.4 (25) | 6.7 (120) | 9.6 (388) | 10.7 (659) | 10.5 (112) | <0.01 |
| M. fortuitum | 7.9 (389) | 7.2 (630) | 0.17 | 5.8 (33) | 6.4 (114) | 7.6 (310) | 8.1 (499) | 5.9 (63) | 0.01 |
| M. gordonae | 6.0 (296) | 4.7 (409) | <0.01 | 2.6 (15) | 4.1 (73) | 5.9 (241) | 5.6 (343) | 3.1 (33) | <0.01 |
| M. abscessus | 5.5 (273) | 4.2 (365) | <0.01 | 4.5 (26) | 4.1 (74) | 5.0 (205) | 4.6 (284) | 4.6 (49) | 0.64 |
| M. kansasii | 2.0 (101) | 2.2 (191) | 0.63 | 0.5 (3) | 2.1 (38) | 1.8 (72) | 2.5 (153) | 2.4 (26) | <0.01 |
| M. chelonae | 2.4 (120) | 1.7 (149) | <0.01 | 2.4 (14) | 2.3 (42) | 1.8 (72) | 2.0 (126) | 1.4 (15) | 0.31 |
| Other | 1.9 (96) | 1.5 (134) | 0.07 | 0.9 (5) | 2.0 (35) | 1.9 (77) | 1.5 (94) | 1.8 (19) | 0.27 |
| M. terrae complex | 0.6 (30) | 0.5 (45) | – | 0.3 (2) | 0.7 (13) | 0.6 (25) | 0.5 (30) | 0.5 (5) | – |
| M. scrofulaceum | 0.3 (15) | 0.3 (22) | – | 0 | 0.3 (6) | 0.3 (11) | 0.3 (16) | 0.4 (4) | – |
| M. smegmatis | 0.3 (14) | 0.2 (17) | – | 0 | 0.3 (5) | 0.2 (9) | 0.2 (13) | 0.4 (4) | – |
| M. xenopi | 0.2 (9) | 0.2 (17) | – | 0 | 0.3 (5) | 0.3 (11) | 0.1 (8) | 0.2 (2) | – |
| M. flavescens | 0.2 (11) | 0.1 (9) | – | 0.5 (3) | 0.1 (1) | 0.1 (4) | 0.2 (10) | 0.2 (2) | – |
| M. phlei | 0.1 (6) | 0.2 (14) | – | 0 | 0.1 (2) | 0.2 (9) | 0.1 (9) | 0 | – |
| M. szulgai | 0.1 (5) | 0.0 (3) | – | 0 | 0 | 0.1 (4) | 0.0 (2) | 0.2 (2) | – |
| M. vaccae | 0.1 (6) | 0.0 (2) | – | 0 | 0.1 (1) | 0.1 (3) | 0.1 (4) | 0 | – |
| M. simiae | 0 | 0.0 (3) | – | 0 | 0.1 (1) | 0 | 0.0 (2) | 0 | – |
| M. marinum | 0 | 0.0 (1) | – | 0 | 0 | 0.0 (1) | 0 | 0 | – |
| M. neoaurum | 0 | 0.0 (1) | – | 0 | 0.1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
*NTM, nontuberculous mycobacteria ; –, not applicable (insufficient data).
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