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Epidemiology and risk factors associated with NTM pulmonary and extrapulmonary infections in a high tuberculosis endemic Region.

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Introduction:Non-tuberculous mycobacteria, although identified as pathogenic to humans long time ago, are emerging as the new threat in the past two decades. Even in tuberculosis endemic country such as India, they are being isolated from the clinical specimens more often than previously. This change in trend is of concern, because they are often misdiagnosed as Mycobacterium tuberculosis or even as drug-resistant tuberculosis. Objectives:A prospective, observational study was planned to identify the frequency and risk factors associated with pulmonary and extrapulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections. Agreement between two commercially available molecular systems, namely GenoType Mycobacteria CM assay and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI TOF MS) used in the identification of mycobacterial species is also analysed. Materials and Methods:NTM isolated from pulmonary and extrapulmonary clinical specimens over a period of 1½ year was included in the study. Patient demographics were collected, and the risk factors associated with NTM infections were analyzed. NTM grown on culture was speciated using GenoType Mycobacteria CM assay (HAIN Life Sciences, Germany) and MALDI TOF MS (bioMerieux, France). Drug-susceptibility tests were done for rapid-growing NTM using E-test (bioMerieux, France). Results:Eight hundred and fifty-four mycobacteria were isolated from 5009 specimens processed during the study period. Out of the mycobacteria grown, 74 (8.7%) were NTM and 780 (91.3%) were Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. The NTM isolated from pulmonary specimens were 46 (62.16%) and from extrapulmonary sources were 28 (37.84%). The most common species isolated from pulmonary specimens was Mycobacterium intracellulare and from extrapulmonary specimens was Mycobacterium abscessus. Concordance between the two commercial assays used for the identification was 96.49%. The most common risk factor associated with pulmonary NTM was previous lung pathology, while with extrapulmonary NTM infection was previous surgical intervention. Drug-susceptibility tests for rapid growers showed amikacin and clarithromycin as the most active drugs in vitro. Conclusions:NTM plays a significant role in causing pulmonary and extrapulmonary infections even in our part of the country with high endemicity of tuberculosis. NTM has emerged as important pathogens even in the immunocompetent patients. There is a need for rapid diagnosis and susceptibility testing of NTM to aid physicians administer timely and appropriate treatment to the patients.

journal_name

Indian J Med Microbiol

journal_title

Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors

Wani SR,Wattal C,Raveendran R

doi

10.4103/ijmm.IJMM_20_274

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-04-01 00:00:00

pages

169-175

issue

eissn

0255-0857

issn

1998-3646

pii

IndianJMedMicrobiol_2020_38_2_169_293906

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Epidemiology and risk factors associated with NTM pulmonary and extrapulmonary infections in a high tuberculosis endemic Region.