{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,21]],"date-time":"2026-08-21T12:41:49Z","timestamp":1787316109672,"version":"build-2736575974"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene","issue":"5","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,3]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>ABSTRACT.<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    Nontuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM) are opportunistic pathogens that cause a wide range of illnesses. Here, the species distribution and prevalence of NTM infections in tuberculosis suspects was analyzed. A total of 7,073 specimens from pulmonary and extrapulmonary sites were analyzed, and 709 (10%) were found to be culture positive for mycobacteria. Of these, 85.2% were identified as\n                    <jats:italic>Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/jats:italic>\n                    complex and 14.8% as NTM (65.7% rapid growers and 34.3% slow growers). Speciation of the NTM isolates (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 69) identified 19 NTM species.\n                    <jats:italic>M. abscessus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (33.3%) and\n                    <jats:italic>M. fortuitum<\/jats:italic>\n                    (24.6%) were the most dominant NTM species isolated from the patients, followed by\n                    <jats:italic>M. porcinum<\/jats:italic>\n                    (5.8%) and\n                    <jats:italic>M. parascrofulaceum<\/jats:italic>\n                    (4.3%). We also report peritonitis caused by rapidly growing NTM among the patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and a case of\n                    <jats:italic>M. senegalense<\/jats:italic>\n                    peritonitis. A low prevalence but high species diversity of NTM was detected in our study. The high species diversity of NTM necessitates the need to unequivocally identify mycobacterial isolates for appropriate treatment.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.21-0095","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,23]],"date-time":"2021-08-23T07:31:34Z","timestamp":1629703894000},"page":"1335-1338","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Epidemiology of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection in Tuberculosis Suspects"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"105","author":[{"given":"Parasmal","family":"Suresh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1Center for Nanosciences and Molecular medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anil","family":"Kumar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2Department of Microbiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Raja","family":"Biswas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1Center for Nanosciences and Molecular medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Divya","family":"Vijayakumar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2Department of Microbiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Swathy","family":"Thulasidharan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2Department of Microbiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gopikrishnan","family":"Anjaneyan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3Department of Dermatology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Akhilesh","family":"Kunoor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"4Department of Respiratory Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lalitha","family":"Biswas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1Center for Nanosciences and Molecular medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2795","container-title":["The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ajtmh.org\/view\/journals\/tpmd\/105\/5\/article-p1335.xml","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ajtmh.org\/downloadpdf\/journals\/tpmd\/105\/5\/article-p1335.xml","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,3]],"date-time":"2021-11-03T10:33:24Z","timestamp":1635935604000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ajtmh.org\/view\/journals\/tpmd\/105\/5\/article-p1335.xml"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,3]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"5"},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4269\/ajtmh.21-0095","relation":{},"ISSN":["0002-9637","1476-1645"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0002-9637","type":"print"},{"value":"1476-1645","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,3]]}}}