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Volume 23, Number 7—July 2017
Research

Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections at a Provincial Reference Hospital, Cambodia

Maryline BonnetComments to Author , Kim Chamroeun San, Yati Pho, Chandara Sok, Jean-Philippe Dousset, William Brant, Northan Hurtado, Khun Kim Eam, Elisa Ardizzoni, Seiha Heng, Sylvain Godreuil, Wing-Wai Yew, and Cathy Hewison
Author affiliations: TRANSVIHMI IRD, INSERM, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France (M. Bonnet); Epicentre, Paris, France (M. Bonnet, Y. Pho); Médecins Sans Frontières, Paris (K. Chamroeun San, C. Sok, J.-P. Dousset, N. Hurtado, E. Ardizzoni, C. Hewison); University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (W. Brant); National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (K.-K. Eam); Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (E. Ardizzoni); Institut Pasteur, Phnom Penh (S. Heng); INSERM, University of Montpellier, Montpellier (S. Godreuil); Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (W.-W. Yew)

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Table 5

NTM species detected in a study of NTM infections at Kampong Cham Provincial Reference Hospital, Cambodia, October 1, 2012–April 21, 2014*

NTM species No. (%) patients
Overall, N = 123 NTM disease, n = 11 NTM colonization, symptomatic, n = 61 NTM colonization, asymptomatic, n = 50
Slow-growing 56      
M. avium 2 (1.6) 1 (9.1)   1 (2.0)
M. kansaii 1 (0.8)     1 (2.0)
M. scrofulaceum 13 (10.5) 1 (9.1) 5 (8.2) 7 (14.3)
M. intracellulare† 23 (18.7) 5 (45.4) 12 (119.7) 6 (12.0)
M. gordonae 13 (10.5)   8 (13.1) 5 (10.2)
M. interjectum 1 (0.8)   1 (1.6)  
M. simiae
 3 (2.4)
 1 (9.1)
 2 (3.3)
  
Rapid-growing 45      
M. fortuitum 28 (22.3) 1 (9.1) 16 (26.2) 11 (22.0)
M. abscessus 14 (11.3) 2 (18.2) 6 (9.8) 6 (12.2)
M. asiaticum 2 (1.6)   1 (1.6)  
M abscessus and M. asiaticum 1 (0.8)   1 (1.6)  
Not identified 22 (17.7)   9 (14.7) 13 (26.5)

*NTM, nontuberculous mycobacteria.
†In 3 cases, M. intracellulare was recovered with another NTM species: M. scrofulaceum (n = 1), M. interjectum (n = 1), and M. fortuitum (n = 1).

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