Table 1.

Frequency of nontuberculous mycobacteria in non–cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis

Study	Site	N	NTM n (%)	Species (number of instances of each isolate)
Wickremasinghe and colleagues, Thorax 2005	Royal Brompton	100	2 (2)	MAC (2)
Fowler and colleagues, Eur Respir J 2006	Papworth	98	10 (10)	MAC (3)
				Mycobacterium fortuitum (3)
				M. xenopi (3)
				M. malmoense (1)
				M. chelonae (1)
				M. simiae (1)
				M. terrae (1)
McShane and colleagues, Chest 2012	University of Chicago	106	9 (8.5)	MAC (7)
				M. chelonae (1)
				M. kansasii (1)
Mirsaeidi and colleagues, Int J Infect Dis 2013	University of Illinois	182	55 (30)	MAC (55)
				M. chelonae (7)
				M. kansasii (2)

Definition of abbreviations: MAC = Mycobacterium avium complex; NTM = nontuberculous mycobacteria.