Trends in the Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease Mortality Rate in Japan: A Nationwide Observational Study, 1997-2016.
Ko HaradaHideharu HagiyaTomoko FunahashiToshihiro KoyamaMitsunobu R KanoFumio OtuskaPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
NTM mortality increased in Japan between 1997 and 2016, especially among the elderly female population. Given the increasing NTM-associated mortality and the susceptible aging population, public health authorities in Japan should pay greater attention to NTM infections.