Nontuberculous mycobacterial infection as a cause of difficult-to-control asthma: a case-control study

• Published in: Chest Vol. 139; no. 1; p. 23
• Main Authors: Fritscher, Leandro G, Marras, Theodore K, Bradi, Ana C, Fritscher, Carlos C, Balter, Meyer S, Chapman, Kenneth R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2011
• Subjects: Adult; Anti-Bacterial Agents - administration & dosage; Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Asthma - drug therapy; Asthma - etiology; Diagnosis, Differential; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Mycobacterium - isolation & purification; Mycobacterium Infections - complications; Mycobacterium Infections - diagnosis; Mycobacterium Infections - microbiology; Retrospective Studies; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Symptomatic disease due to nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is known to occur commonly in the presence of structural lung disease, but is not described in association with asthma. This was a case-control study nested in a cohort. We identified 22 patients with difficult asthma referred to a tertiar...