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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 468-476Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid2303.161927
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- The Physicians' Services Inc. Foundation
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Public Health Ontario
- Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
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Survival implications of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) and NTM pulmonary isolation without disease (NTM-PI) are unclear. To study deaths associated with NTM-PD and NTM-PI and differences in survival between them, we conducted a population-based cohort study of persons with microbiologically defined NTM-PD or NTM-PI diagnosed during 2001-2013 in Ontario, Canada. We used propensity score matching and Cox proportional hazards models to compare survival. Among 9,681 NTMPD patients and 10,936 NTM-PI patients, 87% and 91%, respectively, were successfully matched with unexposed controls. Both NTM-PD and NTM-PI were associated with higher rates of death for all species combined and for most individual species. Compared with NTM-PI, NTM-PD was associated with higher death rates for all species combined, Mycobacterium avium complex, and M. xenopi. NTM-PD and NTM-PI were significantly associated with death, NTMPD more so than NTM-PI.
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