Volume 24, Number 3—March 2018
Research
Increasing Prevalence of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Respiratory Specimens from US-Affiliated Pacific Island Jurisdictions1
Chunrong Lin2
, Chad Russell, Bruce Soll, Dominic Chow, Sapna Bamrah, Richard Brostrom, Wesley Kim, Jerry Scott, and Matthew J. Bankowski3
, Chad Russell, Bruce Soll, Dominic Chow, Sapna Bamrah, Richard Brostrom, Wesley Kim, Jerry Scott, and Matthew J. Bankowski3
Table 3
Rate ratios for positive mycobacteria cultures per year in US-affiliated Pacific Islands, August 2007–December 2011
| Variable | Unadjusted |
Adjusted* |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate ratio per year (95% CI) | p value | Rate ratio per year (95% CI) | p value | |
| Negative culture | 1 (referent) | 1 (referent) | ||
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis | 0.98 (0.93–1.04) | 0.55 | 0.98 (0.94–1.01) | 0.19 |
| Nontuberculous mycobacteria | 1.57 (1.43–1.74) | <0.001 | 1.65 (1.54–1.77) | <0.01 |
*Adjusted for age, sex, and site.
1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the 2013 American College of Physicians Hawaii Chapter Annual Meeting, January 2, 2013, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
2Current affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
3Current affiliation: Baptist Medical Center, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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