ECCMID 2018 meeting report: the continuing clinical challenge of nontuberculous mycobacteria lung disease

Guidelines Only one in four patients with a respiratory NTM isolate received appropriate antibiotic therapy (American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines) according to a study presented by Dr Mateja Jankovic Makek, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Croatia (6). The authors harvested relevant data from 13 published studies reporting 5-year mortality in patients with MAC lung disease. Van Der Laan R, Obradovic M. Mortality in patients with Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease - a review of the published literature.