TABLE 6.

Diagnostic algorithm for the inherited susceptibility to mycobacteria^a

Diagnostic evaluation	Type of patient
High priority for diagnostic evaluation	Patients with disseminated or recurrent infections with poorly pathogenic mycobacteria
	Patients with infection with poorly pathogenic mycobacteria and a positive family history for either disseminated non-typhi Salmonella or nontuberculous mycobacteria
	Patients with persistent or recurrent infection with non-typhi Salmonella
Consider a diagnostic evaluation	Patients with extraintestinal Salmonella enterica serovor Typhi or Paratyphii
	Patients with M. tuberculosis who have persistence or recurrence in spite of adequate therapy
	Patients with systemic symptoms compatible with mycobacterial disease and a history of either Salmonella or severe herpesvirus infections
	Patients with atypical histiocytosis X

^aAdapted from reference 153.