Venn diagram of the fulfilment of diagnostic guideline criteria for NTM pulmonary disease (n=184, 9 patients did not fulfil any component of the criteria)

Incidence rates of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolation per 100 000 individuals in Denmark from 1991 through 2022 by age group and disease localisation.

Ridge (density) plot of age distributions by most common nontuberculous mycobacteria in Demark from 1991 to 2022. The vertical black line (dashed) indicates the median age of all patients. “Other” was defined as Mycobacterium species and species with n<15 throughout the study period.

Figure 1. Diagnostics for tuberculosis. Tests or techniques that are needed and that can discarded. Read details in article

Season’s Greetings from the European Society of #Mycobacteriology (ESM), and best wishes for 2025! It has been another busy year for ESM and a pleasure to see so many of you at our Annual Congress in Bruges! Save the date for next ESM Annual Congress, 22–25 June 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Congratulations to European Society of #Mycobacteriology (ESM) Hugo David Award Winners 2024 (1st semester): Dr Aaron Franklin and his colleagues. This award is given by the ESM Steering Committee to the two best papers of the year published by ESM members

Interesting 👍 In 1941, DK’s first X-ray bus. 1946, first TB mass screening in Copenhagen, 60% of the pop. screened, causing peak in incidence. 1950 -1952, screening in rest of DK, evident in the TB stat. Following this success, dispensaries cont. annual screenings of 1 million people 1950s -1960s

The decline in TB incidence preceded the introduction of TB-specific interventions, illustrating the importance of, in particular, improved living conditions.

Even today, TB is a disease of the poor. Future action TB must contain equal focus on socioeconomic and health interventions.

Share of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis among people notified with tuberculosis, by country of origin, Denmark,1972–2022 (n = 20,264)

Demographic characteristics and disease manifestations of persons notified with tuberculosis, Denmark, 1937–2022

Age curves of persons notified with tuberculosis, Denmark, 1937–2022 (n = 91,211).

Tuberculosis 150 years! #TB incidence in #Denmark 1876–2022 and public health interventions and
historical events. Incidence declined remarkably, peaking around the world wars and systematic mass TB screenings in 1946 + 1951. Highest incidence was in 1883 (652/100,000) vs lowest 2021 (4/100,000).

(A) #nontuberculous #mycobacteria by disease #localization and (B) #pulmonary only (B). IRs for positive NTM culture increased (0.8%/year; p<0.001), driven mainly by pulmonary NTM (2.3%/year; p<0.001), whereas extrapulmonary (−1.7%/year; p<0.001) and disseminated NTM (−9.5%/year; p<0.001) decreased

#NTM #Disease by #species. Nos. and % patients with A) definite disease; B) definite and possible disease combined by species. M. #malmoense (55%), M. #kansasii (46%), and #MAC (36%) were most often associated with definite pulmonary NTM disease. Details in article.