Table 1.

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria reports and rates by species, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 1995, 2000, 2006

	1995		2000		2006
Species							Total number (1995-2006)
	Number	Rate per 100,000	Number	Rate per 100,000	Number	Rate per 100,000
M. avium-intracellulare	225	0.4	360	0.7	649	1.2	4732
M. malmoense	101	0.2	145	0.3	130	0.2	1510
M. kansasii	71	0.1	129	0.2	152	0.3	1380
M. xenopi	33	0.1	50	0.1	117	0.2	827
M. chelonae	5	0.0	42	0.1	117	0.2	708
M. fortuitum	6	0.0	27	0.1	90	0.2	518
M. gordonae	1	0.0	12	0.0	153	0.3	516
M. marinum	14	0.0	27	0.1	27	0.0	274
M. abscessus	0	0.0	1	0.0	60	0.1	172
M. peregrinum	0	0.0	0	0.0	30	0.1	69
M. terrae	0	0.0	2	0.0	4	0.0	33
M. szulgai	1	0.0	0	0.0	1	0.0	30
M. fortuitum/chelonae group	0	0.0	0	0.0	4	0.0	23
M. scrofulaceum	0	0.0	1	0.0	1	0.0	15
M. flavescens	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	1
Unnamed species	2	0.0	5	0.0	73	0.1	231
Total	459	0.9	801	1.5	1608	2.9	11039