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Volume 26, Number 5—May 2020
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Species Distribution and Isolation Frequency of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Uruguay

Gonzalo GreifComments to Author , Cecilia Coitinho, Jakko van Ingen, and Carlos Robello
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay (G. Greif, C. Robello); Comisión Honoraria de Lucha Anti-Tuberculosa y Enfermedades Prevalentes, Montevideo (C. Coitinho); Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (J. van Ingen); Universidad de la República, Montevideo (C. Robello)

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Table 2

Nontuberculous mycobacteria species isolated in Uruguay, 2006–2018*

Species
 2006
 2007
 2008
 2009
 2010
 2011
 2012
 2013
 2014
 2015
 2016
 2017
 2018
 Total
 % Total
Mycobacterium intracellulare 6 5 2 2 4 3 6 3 6 13 9 10 17 86 33.7
M. avium 4 0 1 1 7 2 3 2 5 6 3 6 21 61 23.9
M. kansasii 0 0 0 1 2 3 2 2 5 1 2 2 1 21 8.2
M. gordonae 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 2 0 2 2 15 5.9
M. peregrinum 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 3 2 2 12 4.7
M. chelonae 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 0 2 8 3.1
M. fortuitum 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 2 8 3.1
NTM, no species determinant 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 5 2.0
M. genavense 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 4 1.6
M. avium MTBC† 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 1.2
M. intracellulare MTBC† 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 1.2
M. lentiflavum 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 1.6
M. scrofulaceum 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 1.6
M. simiae 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 1.2
M. abscessus 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1.2
M. heckeshornense 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.8
M. xenopi 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.8
Other species‡
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 3
 0
 4
 0
 1
 3
 11
 4.3
Total
 12
 7
 4
 5
 15
 12
 14
 19
 26
 33
 27
 28
 53
 255
 100.0
*MTBC, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; NTM, nontuberculous mycobacterium.
†Mixed infections.
‡Other species included 1 isolate each of M. arupense, M. asiaticum, M. koreense, M. shimodei, M. interjectum, M. marinum and M. malmoense, and mixed infections of M. avium–M. intracellulare, M. gordonae–M. chelonae, M. intracellulare, M. fortuitum, M. intracellulare-MTBC.

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