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Review
. 2017 Oct 19;4(1):e000242.
doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000242. eCollection 2017.

British Thoracic Society Guideline for the management of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD)

Charles S Haworth  1 , John Banks  2 , Toby Capstick  3 , Andrew J Fisher  4 , Thomas Gorsuch  5 , Ian F Laurenson  6 , Andrew Leitch  7 , Michael R Loebinger  8 , Heather J Milburn  9 , Mark Nightingale  10 , Peter Ormerod  11 , Delane Shingadia  12 , David Smith  13 , Nuala Whitehead  14 , Robert Wilson  8 , R Andres Floto  1   15
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British Thoracic Society Guideline for the management of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD)

Charles S Haworth et al. BMJ Open Respir Res. .

Abstract

The full guideline for the management of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease is published in Thorax. The following is a summary of the recommendations and good practice points. The sections referred to in the summary refer to the full guideline.

Keywords: atypical mycobacterial infection; opportunist lung infections.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: JB has received honorarium funding from AZ. TC has received funding from Chiesi. AF has received funding from GSK. ARF has received funding from Insmed. CSH has received funding from Aradigm, Chiesi, Gilead, Insmed, Raptor, Teva, Vertex and Zambon. ML has received funding from Insmed.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
A suggested algorithm for the investigation of individuals with clinical suspicion of NTM-PD. AFB, acid-fast bacilli; HRCT, high-resolution CT; NTM-PD, non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease.
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