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Tuesday 18 June 2019

Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Critical Care

                                         https://www.austinpublishinggroup.com/tuberculosis/



Recentstudies inpatients, who are hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), show that 51% of them have infections, and 71% are given treatment. Bacterial and some fungal infections, as opportunistic microorganism are the primary concern. Hospitalizing in ICU is associated with increasing in mortality rate and excess expenses. Pharmacokinetics, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs experience many changes in critical illness.

NTM,are a group of mycobacteria which is not a causative organism of tuberculosis or leprosy, so they called as Mycobacteria Other Than Tuberculosis (MOTT). NTM bacteria are a family of small, rod-shaped bacilli which have more than 150 species. Atypical mycobacteria have different favor in choosing their environment and are identified as environmental mycobacteria. NTM are the causative organisms in pulmonary diseases like tuberculosis, lymphadenitis, skin disease, or disseminated disease. Major clinical manifestations of NTM Infections are presented in Table. In 1950s, they were accepted as human pathogens. Unlike tuberculosis and leprosy, spreading NTM infections from one person to another person is rare. Environmental exposure is the major way of contagion. The risk of getting infected by a particular species of NTM is dependent on pathogenicity of microorganism, the method of exposure and frequency of exposure.

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