Nontuberculous mycobacteria: A report of eighteen cases from a tertiary care center in India

Conclusion: Most of the patients with NTM are misdiagnosed and are treated as tuberculosis in India, sometimes with a multidrug resistance regimen, which results in significant morbidity and mortality. We present these cases to shed some light on the epidemiology of NTM in this part of India.

Source: Lung India - October 30, 2020 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Nitin Gupta Ankit Mittal Vettakkara Kandy Muhammed Niyas Sayantan Banerjee Yogiraj Ray Parul Kodan Sundeep Malla Wasim Khot Farhan Fazal Binit Kumar Singh Pankaj Jorwal Neeraj Nischal Manish Soneja Naveet Wig Source Type: research