Epidemiologic Studies of Lung Disease Due to Mycobacteria Other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Japan

Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Respiratory Tract Infections, Eastern Asia

“…We found data from China (5), Hong Kong (6), India (7-13), Japan (4,(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20), South Korea (21-24), Singapore (25), Taiwan (26)(27)(28)(29), and Thailand (30)(31)(32)(33). Most articles used a combination of methods to identify NTM species.…”

Epidemiology of Infection by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

“…In Japan, most M. kansasii lung infections were found in Tokyo (501,503). Prior nocardiosis was associated with M. kansasii infection in cardiac allograft recipients (458).…”

“…Pulmonary M. avium complex infection has been reported throughout the world, including the United States (5, 284, 547), Japan (501,503), and England and Wales (445). In Texas, the number of M. avium complex pulmonary infections rose over the period from 1967 to 1979 (5).…”

“…szulgai, first described in 1972 (333), has been isolated from patients throughout the world, including Japan (503), Wales (333), British Columbia (246), and the United States (73,174,327). Infection is principally pulmonary (73,246,327,333,503). In one study of 14 cases of M. szulgai infection, 10 (71%) were pulmonary (547), and in another study of 27 cases, 18 (67%) were pulmonary (327).…”

Pulmonary infection due to Mycobacterium szulgai, case report and review of the literature

“…Pulmonary diseases account for 27 of the 38 reported cases of M. szulgai infection [1][2][3][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]; other localizations include: three olecranon bursites [2,15]; three skin infections [28][29][30]; two cases of osteomyelitis [4,31]; and one each of cervical adenitis [2] and renal disease [5]. Pulmonary involvement was the prominent pathology also in two [3,6] of the four reported cases of patients with AIDS.…”