Table II.
Pathogenicity of isolated M. chimaera strains depending on sex, age, and concomitant pulmonary disease.
| NTMLD n = 16 |
Colonization n = 14 |
Total | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | ||||
| Men | 8 (50) | 8 (50) | 16(100) | |
| Women | 8 (57) | 6(43) | 14(100) | 0,86 |
| Age | ||||
| Years (mean+/-SD) | 58,3 (16,77) | 62,1 (12,86) | 60,1 (15,19) | 0,72 |
| Diagnosis | ||||
| Previous tuberculosis | 5 (83) | 1 (17) | 6 (100) | |
| COPD | 3 (38) | 5 (62) | 8 (100) | |
| Cystic fibrosis | 2(100) | 0 | 2 (100) | |
| Interstitial lung diseasesa | 2 (40) | 3 (60) | 5 (100) | |
| Post-inflammatory lung fibrosis | 0 | 3 (100) | 3 (100) | |
| Bronchiectasis | 4(100) | 0 | 4(100) | |
| Neoplastic diseasesb | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 2 (100) | |
| Diabetes mellitus | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 2 (100) | |
| Othersc | 0 | 4 (100) | 4 (100) | |
| No concomitant disease | 2(100) | 0 | 2 (100) | |
a – idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (2 pts), sarcoidosis (2), proteinosis (1)
b – mielofibrosis, lung cancer
c – bronchial asthma (1), hypothyreosis (1), mediastinal cyst (1), rheumatoid arthritis (1)