Mycobacterium Tuberclosis and Non Mycobacterium Tuberclosis(NTM)
Order Description
focus mainly on NTM
mention that there are lots of NTM and what makes mycobacteria special.
summarise the key elements of hard to treat patients with TB.
stating that latent TB is something pretty specific to TB in that we take it more seriously than previous exposure/infection with NTM as TB is a genuine pathognen
Add a box for “omics” in the mycobacterial marker list (genomics, proteomics and trancriptomics)
write about methods to diagnose active TB and separately write about methods to diagnose Latent TB and also NTM. (each one separate not in the same paragraph)

Mention that What is different is that a positive NTM culture needs to be interpreted in the context of other features (as shown in the ATS/IDSA criteria eg symptoms
and compatible radiology) write some information about that