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TUBERCULOSIS AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES
Volume 77, Issue 1, Pages 1-5Publisher
THE KOREAN ACAD TUBERCULOSIS & RESPIRATORY DISEASES
DOI: 10.4046/trd.2014.77.1.1
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Tuberculosis; Pulmonary; Nontuberculous Mycobacteria; Epidemiology; Diagnosis; Koreaprevalence
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- Samsung Biomedical Research Institute [SMO1131811]
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The recovery of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) from respiratory specimens and the number of patients with NTM lung disease have been rapidly increasing in Korea. An early differential diagnosis of NTM lung disease from pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is important, as the therapeutic regimen differs from that of pulmonary TB, and it is not necessary to track the contacts of patients with NTM lung disease. However, differentiating NTM lung disease from pulmonary TB remains difficult, because the clinical presentations of the two diseases are similar and a definite diagnosis of NTM lung disease based on sputum culture takes time. This review focuses on the changing epidemiology, clinical and radiographic manifestation, and laboratory diagnosis of pulmonary TB and NTM lung disease in Korea.
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