INCIDENCE RATE OF NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASE IN IMMUNOCOMPETENT CHILDREN
- 1 July 2009
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Vol. 28 (7), 642-644
- https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0b013e3181978e8e
Abstract
An increasing incidence in disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria is being reported. We investigated the burden of disease in immunocompetent German children in a prospective nationwide study from April 2003 to September 2005. Ninety-seven percent of children presented with lymphadenitis; median age was 2.5 years. Using the capture-recapture method, we estimated a cumulative incidence rate of 3.1/100000 children.Keywords
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