Caroline Corbett, Philipp Finger, Marion Heiß-Neumann, Juergen Bohnert, Ines B Eder, Melanie Eisele, Inna Friesen, Achim J Kaasch, Jan Kehrmann, Roland Lang, Juergen Roedel, Susann Roessler, Annika Schmidt, Sophie Schneitler, Daniela Schui, Franziska Schuler, Ludwig Sedlacek, Annerose Serr, Ana-Gabriela Sitaru, Joerg Steinmann, Dirk Wagner, Thomas A Wichelhaus, Sabine Hofmann-Thiel, Harald Hoffmann
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 5,998 pulmonary patients representing 30% of all notified NTM-PD cases of Germany from 2016-2020...
October 26, 2023: Emerging Microbes & Infections