TABLE 1.
Description of Mycobacterium abscessus isolates used in this study
| Clinical condition | No. of patients | No. of isolates
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| Total | Respiratory | Wound/abscess | Blood | ||
| CF | 14 | 51 | 37a | 9 | 5b |
| Non-CF lung infection/chronic colonization | 3 | 9 | 9c | 0 | 0 |
| Mastoiditis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Wounds (tsunami victims) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Transient colonization/ contaminatione | 6 | 6 | 6d | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 28 | 71 | 52 | 14 | 5 |
a
Includes 33 sputum, 3 bronchioalveolar lavage, and 1 pleural fluid sample.
b
Includes four blood cultures and one sample from a central venous catheter.
c
Includes eight sputum and one bronchial lavage sample.
d
Includes two sputum, two bronchial lavage, and two pleural fluid samples.
e
Defined as an M. abscessus isolate appearing on a single culture occasion in a sample from a non-CF patient, without associated clinical symptoms, and followed by negative sample.