[Lung tissue destructive lesions caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria].

Forty-two patients with pulmonary mycobacteriosis were clinically characterized. In most patients, mycobacteriosis developed in the presence of residual changes in the lungs after cured tuberculosis. The torpid onset of mycobacteriosis with a gradual augmentation of symptoms of intoxication was observed.

[Clinical course of mycobacteriosis in young persons].

Clinical manifestations of mycobacteriosis in 22 patients aged 16-35 are described. In males and females the disease was caused by M. avium and M.