Environmental Sources and Transmission of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

NTM resilience in diverse environments ideally positions these opportunistic pathogens as formidable public health challenges and warrants innovative and equitable management solutions to reduce infections.128 Future studies should focus on moving beyond retrospective studies or single snapshots in time studies to favor prospective, longitudinal studies and increased disease surveillance to exponentially improve our ability to forecast environmental features that promote or reduce environmental NTM prevalence.