| [the epidemiology of nontuberculous mycobacterial diseases in hiroshima prefecture]. | the patients of diseases caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (ntm) newly diagnosed in 1993 in hiroshima prefecture were investigated retrospectively. during 1993, 59 newly diagnosed patients of ntm disease, who were the resident of hiroshima prefecture were reported from 6 hospitals. mycobacterium avium complex (mac) disease was most frequent (53 patients, 90%) and m. kansaii (mk) disease, which accounts for more than 20 percent of all the ntm diseases in the national survey of japan, was foun ... | 1996 | 8914386 |