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. 2016 Jun;22(6):1116-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid2206.151086.

Epidemiology of Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease, Japan

Ho Namkoong, Atsuyuki Kurashima, Kozo Morimoto, Yoshihiko Hoshino, Naoki Hasegawa, Manabu Ato, Satoshi Mitarai

Epidemiology of Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease, Japan

Ho Namkoong et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: Japan; NTM; bacteria; epidemiology; incidence rate; nationwide survey; nontuberculous mycobacteria; respiratory infections; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria.

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Incidence (no. cases/100,000 person-years) of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) disease, culture-positive tuberculosis (TB), and smear-positive TB in Japan during 1980–2014. The nationwide survey revealed that the incidence rate of pulmonary NTM disease exceeds that of TB. The epidemiologic survey before 1988 was conducted annually by the same research group; subsequently, another group performed the epidemiologic survey only in 2001 and 2007.
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