انتشار العدوى المتفطرة اللاسلية الرئوية المعزولة من المرضى في المختبر المرجعي الوطني في العراق == The Prevalence of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infection isolated in patients at National Reference Laboratory in Iraq
Author name:
احمد سالم محمد
Supervisor name:
مصطفى نعمة عبد علي
General topic:
Medicine
Specific topic:
Internal Medicine
Degree:
Higher Diploma
University:
University of Baghdad - Faculty Of Medicine
Language:
English
University location:
Baghdad
First pages:
19T1491 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Non - tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) considered mostly as colonizers or ignored as environmental contaminants in the past, are now increasingly recognized as important pulmonary pathogens in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent population. Globally, an increase in NTM infections has been reported from many countries around the world. However, there are no published epidemiologic studies of NTM in Iraq.ObjectiveIs to estimate the prevalence and pattern of resistance of pulmonary NTM infection in Iraq.MethodsThis was a retrospective study collected from the database of national reference laboratory of Iraq from 2015 to 2017
