Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Ontario, Canada, 2020
Theodore K. Marras
, Paul Nelson, Adriana Peci, Melissa Richard-Greenblatt, Sarah Brode, Ashleigh Sullivan, Frances B. Jamieson, and Julianne V. Kus
Author affiliations: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (T.K. Marras, M. Richard-Greenblatt, S. Brode, F.B. Jamieson, J.V. Kus); University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto (T.K. Marras, S. Brode); Public Health Ontario, Toronto (P. Nelson, A. Peci, M. Richard-Greenblatt, A. Sullivan, F.B. Jamieson, J.V. Kus); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (M. Richard-Greenblatt); West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto (S. Brode)
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Figure 1. Categories of nontuberculous mycobacteria pulmonary disease, Ontario, Canada, 2020. A) Uncertain state: 1 sputum culture. B) Standard microbiological criteria: >2 sputum cultures with the same species, or 1 bronchoscopic or lung biopsy culture. C) Strict microbiological criteria (subset of standard): >3 sputum cultures with the same species, or >2 bronchoscopic cultures with the same species, or 1 bronchoscopic plus 1 sputum culture with the same species, or 1 lung biopsy culture. Some images were obtained from Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com).
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