Dissertation of reported cases of nontuberculous mycobacteriosis in Thailand.

During the period from 1967 to 1988, there were 10 published reports of 44 patients from whom mycobacteria other than tubercle bacilli had been isolated clinic specimens. This communication presents results of a scrupulous review of each of the papers which revealed that some of the patients cited in the reports did not meet with the criteria for diagnosis, and some of the cases might have been the same patients as those documented by different investigators.