Table 2

Results during and after treatment

	M malmoense (n=106)		MAC (n=75)		M xenopi (n=42)		All three species		Total
	RE	REH	RE	REH	RE	REH	RE	REH
No entered	52	54	37	38	22	20	112	111	223
No deviated from protocol	15^1D	12^1D	6	8	3	5	24^1D	25^1D	49^2D
No of deaths from all causes	12^1W	15^1R1W	9^3F	14^2F1R	11^1F	13^1F	32^4F1W	42^3F2R1W	74^7F2R2W
No died because of mycobacteria	1	3	0	3	0	3	1^2-150	9^2-150	10
No of failures of treatment and relapses	3 + 3 (6)	0 + 5 (5)^1D	7^3D + 8 (15)^2-151	4^2D+ 2^1D (6)	2^1D + 2 (4)	1^1D+ 0 (1)	12^4D + 13 (25)^2-152	5^3D + 7^1D (12)^2-152	37^9D
No who completed treatment as allocated and were alive and cured at 5 years	20	24	10	13	5	2	35	39	74

↵2-150 p = 0.018 (Fisher's exact test);
↵2-151 χ²=4.5; p=0.033;
↵2-152 χ²=4.5; p=0.033
Superscripts show patients represented in other categories: W = deviated from protocol; F = failure of treatment; R = relapse; d = death
RE = rifampicin + ethambutol; REH = rifampicin + ethambutol + isoniazid.