Prevalence of Latent Tuberculous Infection in Patients With Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease and Colonization: A Prospective Study in an Intermediate Tuberculosis Burden Country.

Ho-Sheng Lee Yu-Feng WeiYi-Jung TsaiPing-Huai WangChung-Yu ChenSheng-Wei PanChin-Chung Shu

Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2022)

The prevalence of LTBI was higher in the patients with NTM-LD and NTM-LC than in the controls. Old age, pulmonary cavitation, and NTM isolated from sputum were associated with a higher risk of LTBI.

Keyphrases

mycobacterium tuberculosis
risk factors
pulmonary tuberculosis
pulmonary hypertension
cystic fibrosis
emergency department
simultaneous determination