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Volume 25, Number 3—March 2019
Dispatch

Epidemiology of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection, South Korea, 2007–2016

Hyewon Lee1, Woojae Myung1, Won-Jung Koh, Seong Mi Moon, and Byung Woo JhunComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (H. Lee); Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul (H. Lee, W. Myung); Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul (W.-J. Koh, S.M. Moon, B.W. Jhun)

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Table 1

Overall prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacterial infections by administrative division, adjusted for age and sex, South Korea, 2007–2016

District No. infections No. cases/100,000 population
Metropolitan city
Seoul 13,671 254.5
Busan 2,055 102.6
Daejeon 1,384 194.4
Gwangju 2,121 302.0
Daegu 1,642 119.9
Incheon 1,169 86.3
Ulsan
 401
 81.5
Province
Gyeonggi-do 6,195 110.2
Gangwon-do 1,107 108.9
Jeollabuk-do 1,213 98.4
Jeollanam-do 470 35.1
Gyeongsangbuk-do 497 26.8
Gyeongsangnam-do 1,201 66.0
Chungcheongbuk-do 285 30.6
Chungcheongnam-do 444 35.2
Cheju-do (island) 119 35.8

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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