Kekkaku : [Tuberculosis]
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Kekkaku : [Tuberculosis] · Jan 2006
Review[Treatment of non-tuberculous pulmonary mycobacteriosis].
The non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis (NTM) is not a unitary disease. It is a general term for the bronchopulmonary diseases caused by any mycobacterium other than M. tuberculosis. We don't call the pulmonary "pseudomoniosis" for the diffuse bronchiectasis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, though conditions of the disease looks like NTM. ⋯ The NTM is not a legal epidemic disease and Japanese Tuberculosis Prevention Act doesn't cover this disease. The medical treatment insurance system doesn't contain the NTM in the list of applicable diseases in Japan. Though these some problems with increasing numbers of patients remain in clinical practice, chairpersons hope that this symposium will be a milestone for the generalized progress of treatment and management of NTM in Japan.