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From: ‘”Why me, why now?” Using clinical immunology and epidemiology to explain who gets nontuberculous mycobacterial infection

Fig. 2

Systemic factors predisposing to NTM disease. Apparently ‘immunocompetent’ individuals may have an elevated risk of NTM disease due to structural lung disease or specific host features such as advanced age, female gender or polymorphisms of immune, cilia, connective tissue or CFTR genes. Immunocompromise causing susceptibility to NTM disease can be caused by primary immune deficiency, drugs targeting the immune system such as anti-TNFα reagents, or systemic disease

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