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Treatment of Diseases Caused by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

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Modern therapy for tuberculosis is highly effective, but the same cannot be said for treatment of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) disease. The commonest and most important of these pathogens, the M avium-intracellulare-scrofulaceum complex (MAC), as well as the rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) M for-tuitum and M chelonae, and several less common species, exhibit resistance to most chemother-apeutic drugs so that successful treatment is a real challenge. Noteworthy exceptions including M kansasii and M marinum show more favorable drug susceptibility, and in these successful treatment is expected and more predictable.

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Rosenzweig, D.Y. (1994). Treatment of Diseases Caused by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria. In: Schlossberg, D. (eds) Tuberculosis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8321-5_27

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