translate English to French: Approximately 21,000 NTM isolates were reported by state public health laboratories in the United States each year from 1993 to 1996.14 About 40% of these were MAC, 10% were rapidly growing NTM of the M. fortuitum-chelonae-abscessus family, 15% were "unknown" or currently unknown species of NTM, and 25% were M. gordonae, a saprophyte and likely not responsible for disease.
Certaines espèces sont répandues dans des régions données et sont associées à certaines professions, notamment : M. xenopi en Ontario15,16; M. kansasii dans le midwest américain, au Royaume-Uni et chez les travailleurs des mines d’or d’Afrique du Sud17; et M. malmoense en Scandinavie18.