Effect of Mixed Infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria on Diagnosis of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Multicentre Study in China.
Mingxiang HuangYaoju TanXuxia ZhangYufeng WangBiyi SuZhongtan XueJingping WangYu PangPublished in: Infection and drug resistance (2022)
The results reported here demonstrated that mixed infections with MTB and NTM occurred in approximately 3% of suspected MDR-TB patients in China. These findings raise concerns about the accuracy of molecular diagnostics-based species identification tests and draw attention to the possibility that NTM-MTB mixed infections will be misdiagnosed as MDR-TB in high TB burden settings.
Keyphrases
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- multidrug resistant
- pulmonary tuberculosis
- end stage renal disease
- drug resistant
- gram negative
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- pulmonary embolism
- working memory
- klebsiella pneumoniae
- emergency department
- hepatitis c virus
- patient reported outcomes
- drug induced