ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2016
Current Epidemiologic Trends of the Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM).
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- A cross-environment comparison of nontuberculous mycobacterial diversity.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- 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
- Meta-Transcriptomic Response to Copper Corrosion in Drinking Water Biofilms.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- mlstverse-web: advancing real-time identification of mycobacteria from sputum using targeted sequencing NALC-Seq.Functional & integrative genomics · 2025Article
- A survey of Irish red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) to establish the prevalence of Mycobacterium bovis.Irish veterinary journal · 2025Article
- Case Report: First pulmonary infection caused byFrontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Not the Silver Bullet: Uncovering the Unexpected Limited Impacts of Silver-Containing Showerheads on the Drinking Water Microbiome.ACS ES&T water · 2024Article
- Tackling Nontuberculous Mycobacteria by Repurposable Drugs and Potential Leads from Natural Products.Current topics in medicinal chemistry · 2024Review
- River Sediments Downstream of Villages in a Karstic Watershed Exhibited Increased Numbers and Higher Diversity of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Mycobacterial Interspersed Repeat Unit-Variable Number Tandem Repeat Typing ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- An investigation of the seasonal relationships between meteorological factors, water quality, and sporadic cases of Legionnaires' disease in Washington, DC.Epidemiology and infection · 2023Article
- Identification of Nocardia and non-tuberculous Mycobacterium species by MALDI-TOF MS using the VITEK MS coupled to IVD and RUO databases.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
- Self-recycling and partially conservative replication of mycobacterial methylmannose polysaccharides.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Identification of Mycobacterium abscessus Subspecies by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2023Article
- Metagenomic next-generation sequencing assistance in identifying non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
- Identification and Phylogenetic Analysis ofTransboundary and emerging diseases · 2023Article
- Non-tuberculous mycobacteria: clinical and laboratory characterisation (2009 and 2019).Epidemiology and infection · 2022Article
- [Clinical Characteristics of Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Infection Cases in Sichuan, China in 2016-2021: A Retrospective Study].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2022Article
- Recovery of Mycobacteria from Heavily Contaminated Environmental Matrices.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- Liposomal drug delivery to manage nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease and other chronic lung infections.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2021Review
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Abstract
The nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are waterborne opportunistic pathogens of humans. They are normal inhabitants of premise plumbing, found, for example, in household and hospital shower heads, water taps, aerators, and hot tubs. The hydrophobic NTM are readily aerosolized, and pulmonary infections and hypersensitivity pneumonitis have been traced to the presence of NTM in shower heads. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis in automotive workers was traced to the presence of NTM in metal recovery fluid used in grinding operations. Recently, NTM bacteremia in heart transplant patients has been traced to the presence of NTM in water reservoirs of instruments employed in operating rooms to heat and cool patient blood during periods of mechanical circulation. Although NTM are difficult to eradicate from premise plumbing as a consequence of their disinfectant-resistance and formation of biofilms, measures such as reduction of turbidity and reduction in carbon and nitrogen for growth and the installation of microbiological filters can reduce exposure of NTM to susceptible individuals.
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