ArticleChest2015
Natural disasters and nontuberculous mycobacteria: a recipe for increased disease?
Article in Chest, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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29 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Review of the Canadian Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease Landscape-Challenges and Opportunities.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Review
- Factors predicting incidence of nontuberculous mycobacteria in an era of climate change and altered ecosystems in the United States.The Science of the total environment · 2025Article
- Consequences of Climate Change on the Emergence of Pathogenic, Environmentally Acquired Nontuberculous Mycobacteria.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients and the General Population.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The growing impact of nontuberculous mycobacteria: A multidisciplinary review of ecology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment.Infectious medicine · 2025Review
- The effect of the great Kermanshah earthquake on the tuberculosis infection trend: interrupted time series analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Therapeutic developments for tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2024Review
- Impact of climate change on amoeba and the bacteria they host.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2024Article
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- Spatial Epidemiologic Analysis and Risk Factors for Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections, Missouri, USA, 2008-2019.Emerging infectious diseases · 2023Review
- Impact of climate change on waterborne infections and intoxications.Journal of health monitoring · 2023Article
- Diseases caused by floods with a spotlight on the present situation of unprecedented floods in Pakistan: a short communication.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Environmental risk of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection: Strategies for advancing methodology.Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2023Article
- Assessment of pathogens in flood waters in coastal rural regions: Case study after Hurricane Michael and Florence.PloS one · 2023Article
- Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease in Florida and association with large-scale natural disasters.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Continued Upward Trend in Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria Isolation over 13 Years in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Korea.Yonsei medical journal · 2021Article
- Symptom Burden and Medication Use Among Patients with Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease.Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) · 2021Article
- Nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: an integrated approach beyond antibiotics.ERJ open research · 2021Review
- Perspectives on the Health Effects of Hurricanes: A Review and Challenges.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
Infectious diseases acquired by survivors of large-scale natural disasters complicate the recovery process. During events such as tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornados and well into the recovery period, victims often are exposed to water-soil mixtures that have relocated with indigenous microbes. Because nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous in water and soil, there is potential for increased exposure to these organisms during natural disasters. In this hypothesis-driven commentary, we discuss the rise in NTM lung disease and natural disasters and examine the geographic overlap of NTM infections and disaster frequencies in the United States. Moreover, we show an increased number of positive NTM cultures from Louisiana residents in the years following three of the relatively recent epic hurricanes and posit that such natural disasters may help to drive the increased number of NTM infections. Finally, we advocate for increased environmental studies and surveillance of NTM infections before and after natural disasters.
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