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Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Dispatch

Pulmonary Infection and Colonization with Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Taiwan, 2000–2012

Jung-Yien Chien, Chih-Cheng Lai, Wang-Huei Sheng, Chong-Jen Yu, and Po-Ren HsuehComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Taiwan University College of Medicine Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan (J.-Y. Chien); Ministry of Health and Welfare Chest Hospital, Tainan (J.-Y. Chien); National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei (J.-Y. Chien, W.-H. Sheng, C.-.J. Yu, P.-R. Hsueh); C.-M. Medical Center, Liouying, Taiwan (C.-C. Lai)

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Table 2

Bacterial species implicated in pulmonary mycobacterial infections and colonization/contamination, by patient sex and age, Taiwan, 2000–2012

Bacterial species Sex, % (no.) patients
 p value Age, y, % (no.) patients
 p value
Female, n = 4,931 Male, n = 8,721 <24, n = 572 25–44, n = 1,792 45–64, n = 4,062 65–84, n = 6,156 >85, n = 1,070
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
 35.0 (1,725)
 47.6 (4,153)
 <0.01
 67.8 (388)
 53.3 (956)
 38.9 (1,579)
 40.9 (2,519)
 40.7 (436)
 <0.01
NTM probable infection
M. avium–intracellulare complex 13.1 (645) 8.4 (732) <0.01 3.7 (21) 6.3 (113) 11.1 (449) 10.3 (637) 14.7 (157) <0.01
M. abscessus 6.8 (334) 4.3 (376) <0.01 2.3 (13) 5.7 (102) 5.9 (241) 4.5 (275) 7.4 (79) <0.01
M. fortuitum 2.7 (132) 3.6 (311) <0.01 1.2 (7) 1.8 (33) 3.8 (155) 3.5 (218) 2.8 (30) <0.01
M. chelonae 3.0 (148) 1.9 (164) <0.01 2.6 (15) 1.9 (34) 2.9 (116) 2.0 (122) 2.3 (25) 0.04
M. kansasii 1.2 (61) 2.0 (173) <0.01 0.7 (4) 2.1 (38) 1.9 (77) 1.7 (105) 0.9 (10) 0.04
M. gordonae 1.1 (55) 1.3 (110) 0.5 0.5 (3) 0.4 (8) 1.3 (52) 1.5 (91) 1.0 (11) <0.01
Other 0.6 (31) 0.5 (45) 0.4 0 0.7 (12) 0.7 (28) 0.5 (31) 0.5 (5) 0.22
M. terrae complex 0.2 (8) 0.1 (9) – 0 0.2 (4) 0.1 (4) 0.1 (8) 0.1 (1) –
M. scrofulaceum 0.2 (8) 0.1 (7) – 0 0 0.2 (9) 0.1 (6) 0 –
M. phlei 0.1 (5) 0.1 (9) – 0 0.3 (5) 0.1 (3) 0.1 (5) 0.1 (1) –
M. smegmatis 0 0.1 (10) – 0 0.1 (1) 0.0 (2) 0.1 (5) 0.2 (2) –
M. xenopi 0.1 (4) 0.1 (6) – 0 0.1 (1) 0.0 (2) 0.1 (6) 0.1 (1) –
M. flavescens 0.1 (4) 0 – 0 0.1 (1) 0.1 (3) 0 0 –
M. celatum 0 0.0 (2) – 0 0 0.0 (2) 0 0 –
M. asiaticum 0 0.0 (1) – 0 0 0 0.0 (1) 0 –
M. mageritense 0 0.0 (1) – 0 0 0.0 (1) 0 0 –
M. szulgai 0.0 (1) 0 – 0 0 0.0 (1) 0 0 –
M. vaccae
 0.0 (1)
 0
 –
 0
 0
 0.0 (1)
 0
 0
 –
NTM colonization/contamination
M. avium–intracellulare complex 10.6 (525) 8.9 (779) <0.01 4.4 (25) 6.7 (120) 9.6 (388) 10.7 (659) 10.5 (112) <0.01
M. fortuitum 7.9 (389) 7.2 (630) 0.17 5.8 (33) 6.4 (114) 7.6 (310) 8.1 (499) 5.9 (63) 0.01
M. gordonae 6.0 (296) 4.7 (409) <0.01 2.6 (15) 4.1 (73) 5.9 (241) 5.6 (343) 3.1 (33) <0.01
M. abscessus 5.5 (273) 4.2 (365) <0.01 4.5 (26) 4.1 (74) 5.0 (205) 4.6 (284) 4.6 (49) 0.64
M. kansasii 2.0 (101) 2.2 (191) 0.63 0.5 (3) 2.1 (38) 1.8 (72) 2.5 (153) 2.4 (26) <0.01
M. chelonae 2.4 (120) 1.7 (149) <0.01 2.4 (14) 2.3 (42) 1.8 (72) 2.0 (126) 1.4 (15) 0.31
Other 1.9 (96) 1.5 (134) 0.07 0.9 (5) 2.0 (35) 1.9 (77) 1.5 (94) 1.8 (19) 0.27
M. terrae complex 0.6 (30) 0.5 (45) – 0.3 (2) 0.7 (13) 0.6 (25) 0.5 (30) 0.5 (5) –
M. scrofulaceum 0.3 (15) 0.3 (22) – 0 0.3 (6) 0.3 (11) 0.3 (16) 0.4 (4) –
M. smegmatis 0.3 (14) 0.2 (17) – 0 0.3 (5) 0.2 (9) 0.2 (13) 0.4 (4) –
M. xenopi 0.2 (9) 0.2 (17) – 0 0.3 (5) 0.3 (11) 0.1 (8) 0.2 (2) –
M. flavescens 0.2 (11) 0.1 (9) – 0.5 (3) 0.1 (1) 0.1 (4) 0.2 (10) 0.2 (2) –
M. phlei 0.1 (6) 0.2 (14) – 0 0.1 (2) 0.2 (9) 0.1 (9) 0 –
M. szulgai 0.1 (5) 0.0 (3) – 0 0 0.1 (4) 0.0 (2) 0.2 (2) –
M. vaccae 0.1 (6) 0.0 (2) – 0 0.1 (1) 0.1 (3) 0.1 (4) 0 –
M. simiae 0 0.0 (3) – 0 0.1 (1) 0 0.0 (2) 0 –
M. marinum 0 0.0 (1) – 0 0 0.0 (1) 0 0 –
M. neoaurum 0 0.0 (1) – 0 0.1 (1) 0 0 0 –

*NTM, nontuberculous mycobacteria ; –, not applicable (insufficient data).

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