Epidemiology of Opportunistic Pathogen Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in a Referral Hospital in Ankara
İsmail Ceyhan, Sedat Vezir
Flora the Journal of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology · 2021-12
Abstract
Introduction: Non tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) have been isolated more frequently from clinical cases in recent years. The aim of this study was to show the distribution and identification of NTM isolated from pulmonary samples of patients pre-diagnosed as tuberculosis between 2010-2019 in a referral tuberculosis hospital by commercial Line Probe Assay (LPA, GenoType MycobacteriumCM/ AS, Hain Lifescience, Nehren Germany).
MeSH terms
- Nontuberculous mycobacteria
- Epidemiology
- Referral
- Medicine
- Pathogen
- Opportunistic pathogen
- Microbiology
- Intensive care medicine