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Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease ›› 2021, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (3): 294-297.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2096-8493.20210049

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Analysis of clinical features of Mycobacterium intracellulare pulmonary disease and Mycobacterium kansas pulmonary disease

YAN Jin-yu, ZOU Tao, GUO Jian, XU Yong, TANG Pei-jun, FENG Yan-jun()   

  1. Department of Tuberculosis, the Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University/the Fifth People’s Hospital of Suzhou, Suzhou 215100, China
  • Received:2021-05-26 Online:2021-09-30 Published:2021-09-24
  • Contact: FENG Yan-jun E-mail:fenyanjun@163.com

Abstract:

The clinical data (including sex, age, smoking history, lymphocyte subsets, and comorbidity of pulmonary diseases, immune system diseases and diseases of other systems) of 168 cases of Mycobacterium intracellulare pulmonary disease (intracellulare group) and 90 cases of Mycobacterium kansas pulmonary disease (kansas group) diagnosed in the Fifth People’s Hospital of Suzhou from March 2014 to April 2021 were analyzed. As it turned out, the intracellulare group patients were of significant differences from the Kansas group in a number of figures (the intracellulare group: male (47.62% (80/168)), average age ((62.23±1.01) years old), smoking history (5.36% (9/168)), complicated with pulmonary diseases (58.93% (99/168)), complicated with hypertension (15.48% (26/168)), complicated with diseases of other systems (20.83% (35/168)), the expression rates of CD4 +T lymphocytes ((34.82±0.73) %) and NK cells ((21.26±0.94) %); the Kansas group: (91.11% (82/90), (45.82±1.58) years old, 18.89% (17/90), 26.67% (24/90),5.56% (5/90), 10.00% (9/90), (38.66±1.03) %, (16.55±1.07) %), (χ2=47.447, P=0.000; t=4.145, P=0.000; χ 2=11.842, P=0.001; χ 2=24.452, P=0.000; χ 2=5.456, P=0.020; χ 2=4.862, P=0.027; t=-3.058, P=0.003; t=3.117, P=0.002)). The clinical characteristics of Mycobacterium intracellulare pulmonary disease and Mycobacterium kansas pulmonary disease are different in sex, age, complicated diseases, and lymphocyte subsets, which has certain reference value for the clinical differential diagnosis of those two diseases.

Key words: Lung diseases, Mycobacterium intracellulare, Mycobacterium kansasii, Disease attributes, Comparative study