It has been suggested that the incidence of infection with mycobacteria other than typical
tubercle (MOTT) bacilli is increasing. Laboratory and epidemiologic information relating to …

Over the period 1987 to 1989, three hundred and two isolates of ten species of mycobacteria
other than tuberculosis (MOTT) produced disease in 282 patients. M. avium intracellulare …

For a variety of reasons, the number of mycobacterial isolates and the isolation rates
reported by state laboratories may not be good measures of the public health and clinical …

The author reviews the patients from whose sputa atypical mycobacteria have been isolated
in the Laboratory of Microbiology and Pathology, Brisbane. There were 129 of these. No less …

Unclassified mycobacteria were isolated from 36 of 35,555 clinical specimens cultured for M.
tuberculosis. The majority of isolations were from patients suspected of having tuberculosis …

The rate of isolation of mycobacteria other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MOTT) has
increased over the past several years; in some areas the isolation rate for Mycobacterium …

The results of simultaneous skin testing with PPD-S, PPD-G, and PPD-B in 3,260 healthy
persons and the incidence of active bacillary tuberculosis and of nontuberculous …

During the 2-yr period 1981–83, demographic, clinical, and laboratory information was
collected for 5,469 patients from whom nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) had been …

Background: Between 1995 and 1997, a tuberculosis outbreak occurred in a large, urban
jail. We investigated whether the outbreak strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M …

Saprophytic mycobacteria are widely distributed in the environment and contact between
them and man is unavoidable. Immunologically effective contact is responsible for cross …