Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: presumptive diagnosis based on the international microbiological criteria adopted in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, 2011-2014
J. bras. pneumol; 45 (2), 2019
ABSTRACT Objective: Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections are caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), the microbiological diagnosis of which involves the isolation and identification of the same species in at least two sputum samples, one BAL fluid sample, or one lung biopsy sample. The...
Brasil/epidemiología, Pulmón/microbiología, Infecciones por Mycobacterium no Tuberculosas/diagnóstico, Infecciones por Mycobacterium no Tuberculosas/epidemiología, Infecciones por Mycobacterium no Tuberculosas/microbiología, Micobacterias no Tuberculosas/aislamiento & purificación, Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa, Mapeo Restrictivo, Estudios Retrospectivos