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Nontubercular Mycobacterial Pulmonary Infection in Immunocompetent Men

DOI

11

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0

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2001

Year

NAVEEN KANATHUR, Harsha Shantaveerapa, Ryland P. Byrd, Jay Mehta, Thomas M. Roy
Southern Medical Journal

Abstract

Twelve percent of our population of immunocompetent men from whom NTM were isolated from sputum were infected. This study should alert the clinician that NTM cause treatable pulmonary disease in immunocompetent men.