Fig 1.
NTMs cultured from respiratory samples (N = 416).
NTMs isolated from respiratory specimens were retrospectively analyzed. Others category includes: Mycobacterium kansasii (1.0%), M. szulgai (0.7%), M. xenopi (0.7%), M. peregrium (0.5%), M. scrofulaceum (0.5%), M. simiae (0.2%), and M. terrae (0.2%).
Fig 2.
Epidemiology of NTM lung disease (N = 114).
NTM lung disease cases, defined according to the American Thoracic Society criteria, were extracted from NTM detected cases shown in Fig 1. Others category includes: Mycobacterium kansasii (0.9%), M. scrofulaceum (0.9%), M. szulgai (0.9%), M. terrae (0.9%), and M. xenopi (0.9%).
Table 1.
Patient background.
Table 2.
Multivariate analysis to determine clinical charecteristics for MABC.
Table 3.
Symptoms.
Table 4.
Chest CT findings.