| increasing patients with pulmonary mycobacterium avium complex disease and associated underlying diseases in japan. | this study was conducted to evaluate trends in the isolation of strains of nontuberculous mycobacteria (ntm) and trends in the number of patients with pulmonary mycobacterium avium complex (mac) disease. we retrospectively reviewed microbiological results and clinical data to identify patients who were diagnosed with pulmonary mac disease at kyoto university hospital in japan between 2000 and 2013. ntm were isolated from 6327 of 80,285 samples (7.9%) for mycobacterial culture. the proportion of ... | 2015 | 25640532 |