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Volume 27, Number 3—March 2021
Research

Extrapulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections in Hospitalized Patients, United States, 2009–2014

Emily E. RicottaComments to Author , Jennifer Adjemian1, Rebekah A. Blakney, Yi Ling Lai, Sameer S. Kadri, and D. Rebecca Prevots
Author affiliations: National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (E.E. Ricotta, J. Adjemian, R.A. Blakney, Y.L. Lai, D.R. Prevots); US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Rockville, Maryland, USA (J. Adjemian); National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda (S.S. Kadri)

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Table 2

Sources of extrapulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infection, by site sterility and association with medical device, prosthetics, and surgery, United States, 2009–2014*

Source Sterile, no. (%) Not sterile, no. (%) Device/prosthesis associated, no. (%) Surgery-associated, no. (%)
Skin and soft tissue, n = 340
33 (10)
307 (90)
59 (17)
129 (38)
Disseminated, n = 290
Blood, n = 259 259 (100) NA 72 (28) 26 (10)
Bone and joint, n = 26 26 (100) NA 7 (27) 7 (27)
Central nervous system, n = 5
5 (100)
NA
3 (60)
3 (60)
Other, n = 362
Abdominal, n = 110 21 (19) 89 (81) 27 (24) 17 (15)
Urinary, n = 11 0 11 (100) 2 (18) 1 (9)
Other, n = 241 64 (27) 177 (73) 49 (20) 87 (36)

*Data from in Cerner Health Facts database (https://sc-ctsi.org/resources/cerner-health-facts). NA, not applicable.

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1Current affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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