Geological and Geochemical Controls on Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterium Transmission: Examples from Hawaii

The opportunistic environmental microbes, non-tuberculous Mycobacterium (NTM), pose an increasing risk of disease and death in both immunodeficient and immunocompetent individuals in the USA and across the world. NTM lung disease is particularly prevalent in Hawaii, although the modes of NTM acquisi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Schuyler Thomas
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2019
Subjects:
NTM
HVO
PCA
Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8558
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9558&context=etd