Time to Positive Culture Detection Predicts Mycobacterium avium Pulmonary Disease Severity and Treatment Initiation.
Brett D EdwardsSarah K BrodeMahtab MehrabiTheodore K MarrasPublished in: Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2021)
TTP is associated with bacterial burden and infection severity and increases in response to treatment. A threshold of ≤10 days may be useful in predicting significant Mav-PD. As a readily available biomarker, further exploration of TTP is imperative.