Development of prevalence and incidence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in German laboratories from 2016 to 2020.

ABSTRACT: Numbers of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) pulmonary diseases (PD) have been repeatedly reported as increasing over the last decades, particularly in Europe. Sound epidemiological data are however missing for most European regions. This study calculated prevalence and incidence of NTM recovered from patients' lungs in Germany, the largest Central European country, over a five-year period. It furthermore determined regional particularities of NTM species and results from susceptibility testing. 22 German NTM laboratories provided their mycobacteriological diagnostic data of 11,430 NTM isolates recovered from 5998 pulmonary patients representing 30% of all notified NTM-PD cases of Germany from 2016 to 2020. NTM incidence and prevalence were calculated for every study year. The presented e

SUBMITTER: Corbett C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10769520 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature