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Table 5 Intensive care unit treatment, mortality and NTM isolates

From: Profiling non-tuberculous mycobacteria in an Asian setting: characteristics and clinical outcomes of hospitalized patients in Singapore

 

Overall event rate

Species

M. abscessus

M. kansasii

MAC

M. fortuitum

M. gordonae

ICU admissions

11 (2.2%)

3 (27.3%)

3 (27.3%)

2 (18.2%)

2 (18.2%)

1 (9%)

Mortality

- All cause

82 (16.9%)

38 (46.3%)

13 (15.9%)

17 (20.7%)

6 (7.3%)

3 (3.7%)

- Pulmonary cause

72 (14.8%)

35 (48.6%)

13 (18.1%)

14 (19.4%)

5 (6.9%)

2 (2.8%)