Table 2.

Respiratory or sinus cultures of MAC initially identified as M. intracellulare by nonsequencing methods and then retested by ITS sequencing

Study no.	No. of M. intracellulare isolates identified by nonsequencing methods	No. (%) of isolates identified by ITS sequencing				Reference(s)
		M. avium	MAC X	M. chimaera	M. intracellulare
1	1	1	0	0	0	6
2	3	0	0	0	3	L. Lande, unpublished data; 17
3	10	0	0	1	9	1
4a	40	0	0	3	37	R. J. Wallace, Jr., unpublished data
5	0	NAb	NA	NA	NA	2
Totals	54	1	0	4 (7.4)	49 (90.7)

^aMultiple isolates were available for all patients in this study.

^bNA, not applicable.