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Volume 5, Number 3—June 1999
Synopsis

Emergence of a Unique Group of Necrotizing Mycobacterial Diseases

Karen M. Dobos*†, Frederick D. Quinn†, David A. Ashford†, C. Robert Horsburgh*, and C. Harold King*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Table 3

Laboratory-confirmed cases of Mycobacterium marinum reported by individual states within the United States, by year, 1993–1996a

No. cases (%)b
State 1993 1994 1995 1996
Florida 15 (9.9) 13 (7.3) 13 (8.8) 24 (15.3)
Maryland 15 (9.9) 24 (13.4) 21 (14.3) 22 (14.0)
Minnesota 6 (4.0) 4 (2.2) 6 (4.1) 8 (5.1)
Missouri 2 (1.3) 7 (3.9) 5 (3.4) 9 (5.7)
Utah 3 (1.9) 2 (1.1) 5 (3.4) 4 (2.6)
Virginia 7 (4.6) 13 (7.3) 12 (8.2) 11 (7.0)
Wisconsin 9 (5.9) 8 (4.5) 9 (6.1) 9 (5.7)

aThese data are reported as part of the passive laboratory-based surveillance system using the Public Health Laboratory Information System software developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors.
bPercent (%) denotes contribution to cases reported nationally for the year.

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