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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (8): 967-970.doi: 10.19982/j.issn.1000-6621.20240019

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Research progress on comprehensive treatment beyond antibiotic therapy for nontuberculous mycobacterium pulmonary disease

Tan Shouyong()   

  1. National Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis Research, Tuberculosis Department of Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Institute of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510095, China
  • Received:2024-01-15 Online:2024-08-10 Published:2024-08-01
  • Contact: Tan Shouyong E-mail:tanshouyong@163.com
  • Supported by:
    National Science and Technology Major Project for the 13th Five Year Plan(2018ZX10722301-001)

Abstract:

In recent years, the incidence and prevalence of pulmonary disease caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infection have been increasing rapidly. However, non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) has the characteristics of low cure rate, high case fatality rate and high recurrence rate. Therefore, some scholars have proposed that clinicians should first manage the host factors and handle the controllable characteristics of NTM-PD, followed by optimizing anti-NTM treatment. This paper provides a review of the current status of comprehensive treatment beyond antibiotic therapy for NTM-PD, and propose that the important measures to improve the cure rate and reduce the recurrence rate of the disease are as follows: strengthening the comprehensive treatment beyond antibiotic therapy during treating NTM-PD, reducing or avoiding exposure to the NTM environment, enhancing the body’s immunity and improving the pulmonary internal environment caused by structural lung disease.

Key words: Mycobacterium infections, Lung diseases, Combined modality therapy, Immunity

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