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SUBMITTER: Chin KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7222044 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 20191218 5
Currently, there is a trend of increasing incidence in pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections (PNTM) together with a decrease in tuberculosis (TB) incidence, particularly in developed countries. The prevalence of PNTM in underdeveloped and developing countries remains unclear as there is still a lack of detection methods that could clearly diagnose PNTM applicable in these low-resource settings. Since non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental pathogens, the vicinity favour ...[more]