Abstract
1 Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2 National Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
3 Department of Clinical Microbiology, VieCuri Hospital, Venlo, The Netherlands
4 Department of Laboratory Medicine, HELIOS Hospital, Krefeld, Germany
5 Department of Surgery, VieCuri Hospital, Venlo, The Netherlands
6 Regional Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Microbiology and Virology Laboratory, Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy