Table S1 Incuded articles after full text evaluation with the PID numbers from 1 to 97.

1.Huang MZ, Jiang KM. The clinical characteristic of 48 nontuberculous mycobacteria disease. Chongqing medicine .2002; 31(8):758-759.

2.Pang L, Li HB, Li YC. The analysis of drug susceptibility test against nontuberculous mycobacterial isolates in ShunDe District. Guangdong Pharmaceutical Journal. 2004;14(1):47-48.

3.Lv HK: The epidemiological study on tuberculosis in Jiangsu province. Master's thesis 2005.

4.Xu JH, Zhen XA, Wang GJ, Wang GB. Identification and Analysis ofNontuberculousMycobacteria in Clinically Diagnosed Pulmonary Tuberculosis Cases. Journal of Medical Forum. 2005; 26(17):1-3.

5.Wu LZ, Huang JL, Zhang YL, Cai XS, Guan P: Identification of mycobacterium species and analysis of drug susceptibility of mycobacteria isolated from 2001 to 2004 in Guangzhou. Chinese Journal of antituberculosis. 2006; 28(3):170-173.

6.Zhang YY, Zhang XM, Wang Y, Zeng LC, Liu ZG, Wang XL.: Analysis of bacter io logy test r esult of 574 TB suspected patients. Disease surveillance. 2006;21(6):299-301.

7.Deng YF: Application of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotyping Method in Molecular epidemiological surverllance study. Master's thesis 2007.

8.Mei J, Shen X, Shen M, Gui XH, Sun BQ. The survelliance report of drug resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis in Shanghai. Chin J antituberc. 2007; 29(5):395-398.

9.Meng MP, Wu GM. Species identification and drug susceptibilty test of culture positive tuberculosis in HaiKou. Guangdong Medical Journal .2007; 28(12):1971-1972.

10.Pei DC, Wang SL, Wang X, Wang Y, Wang JY. analysis on nontuberculous mycobacterium pulmonary disease. Medical Journal of Chinese people health. 2007;19(8):623-624.

11.Wang LM, Han YD, Wang CM, han YN.The drug susceptinility test result of nontuberculous mycobacterium in Changchun. Jilin medicine. 2007; 28(17):1889-1890.

12.He X, Cai XS, Liu ZH.The correlation between nontuberculous mycobacteria islolate and NTM diseases. International Medicine & Health Guidance News.2008;14(21):13-14.

13.Zhang XM, Zhang YY, Zeng LC, Wang Y, Wang XL, Zhao XQ,et al. Bacteriological investigation of tuberculosis in Xi' an city. Chinese Journal of Zoonoses.2008;24(12):1118-1121.

14.Jing H, Wang Y, Li XX, yu CB. Distribution of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Shandong province. Chin J antituberc .2009;31(5):273-276.

15.Li CM, Zhang WH.Analysis of species identification results against Mycobacterium isolates. EXPERIMENTAL AND LABORATORY MEDICINE .2009;27(5):471-472.

16.Yan SJ, Li YC, Xie SH, Liao Y.The analysis of Drug susceptibility results against mycobacterium isolates in Shunde district for 5 years. The journal of Practical Medicine .2009;25(4):639-640.

17.Duan HP.Drug resistance in tuberculosis sputum: a report of 568 cases. J Shanxi Med Univ .2010; 41(7):634-636.

18.Feng L.An epidemiological abd bacteriological investigation on Tb in Nanchang City,Jiangxi province,China. Master's thesis 2010.

19.Li XJ, Tan SY, HUang YL, Cai XS, Lin ZH.Analysis on the epidemiological characteristics of 812 non-tuberculous mycobacteria strains. Chin J antituberc.2010; 32(12):811-814.

20.Shi DX, Chen QH, Bo SH, Zhang WH. The survey of drig susceptibility test against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Nanjing. Chin J clin Lab Sci .2010; 28(3):234-235.

21.Xiao HL, Wang R, ZHang TH, Wang M.Analysis of Drug resistance surveillance On tuberculosis In Qinba Region of Shanxi. Chin J Pharmacoepidemiol.2010;19(10):555-558.

22.Xu ZT, Wu DL, Wang SX, liu RJ, Liu WB, Liu T, et al. Study on Drug resistance Distribution and infection situation of MTB and NTM in Ganyu contry. J med pest control.2010;26(12):1103-1105.

23.Duan HP.The analysis of drug susceptibility test results against 44 nontuberculous mycobacterium isolates from sputum samples. Journal of clinical pulmonary medicine. 2011;(16):313.

24.huang LP, Shi L, Wei SZ, Ba S, Xi L.Preliminarily Analyse on the Characteristics of Drug Resistance and Clinical Symptoms of Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacterium Infection in Tibet. Guide of China Medicine.2011;9(1):5-6.

25.Jin hY, Ye SD.Analysis of drug sensitivity teste in 179 mycpbacterium strains Chinese Journal of Health laboratory technology.2011;21(1):152-153.

26.Liu HM, Zhan NY, Chen JB, Xiao YY, Luo K, Wu C, et al. Analysis of drug resistance of 145 strains nontuberculous mycobacteria. Journal of clinical pulmonary medicine. 2011;16(9):1390-1392.

27.Liu J, Ji SG, Pei H, Chen YY.The analysis of drug susceptibility test results against 16 nontuberculous tuberculosis. Modern Medicine & Health.2011;27(7):1008-1009.

28.Sheng Q, Ma ZM, Tan JH, Cai XS. The drug susceptibility test results of 469 nontuberculous mycobacterial isolates. The journal of Practical Medicine .2011;27(13):2405-2407.

29.Sun ML, Chen X, Hua YC. Application of BACTEC MGIT 960 system in preliminary identification of mycobacterium and antimicrobial susceptibility test. Chin J No so comio. 2011;21(11):2372-2374.

30.Tong CX, Ma JJ, Shui YZ, Wang SJ. The analysis of 47 nontuberculous mycobacterial isolates from pulmonary sputa. Chin J Prim Med Pharm.2011;18(6):799-781.

31.Wang HB, Kang SQ, Liu YH, tan XY, Cao JF, Liu HY. The results of drug susceptibility test in 288 non-tuberculosis mycobacterial strain. Chinese Journal of esthetic Medicine.2011;20(5):496-497.

32.Wang JL, Wang ZH, Yi SW. The analysis of drug-resistance in 112 cases with nontuberculous Mycobacterium. Medicine Laboratory Science and Clinics .2011; 22(4):62-63.

33.Xu YY, Li B, TAn YJ, Tan SY, Yi XP, Cai XS,et al. Species identification and drug susceptibility test agasinst nontuberculoud mycobacterial isolates in Guangzhou region. Guangdong Medical Journal .2011; 32(3):334-336.

34.Zhao DY, Yang HY, Ma XG, Zhao YL, Li H, Xu ZY,et al: Survey on etiology of tuberculosis and drug-resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Weishi county,Henna province. Disease surveillance.2011;26(6):446-449.

35.Che Y, Yu M, Ping GH. The analysis ofdrug susceptibility test results of differnet mycobacterium isolates in Ningbo. Chinese Journal of Health Laboratory Technology. 2012; 26(6):1431-1433.

36.Chen JB, Huang TH, Chen YY, Wu C, Xiao YY, LUO K,et al. Comparison of three methods in the detection of tuberculosis and analysis of drug resistance in clinical isolates of mycobactrium. Int J LAb Med.2012;33(4):420-423.

37.Chen WM, Chen X, Wang ZG, Tan Y, Wang LF. Analysis of drug resistance in 1056 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. Journal of clinical pulmonary medicine .2012; 17(2):296-297.

38.Jiang LX. Analysis of drug susceptibility test results of 256 tuberculos patients in Taizhou. Chin J Prev Contr Chron Dis.2012;20(5):589-590.

39.Li DY, Rao ZY, Yang JL, Zhang XD, Liu XJ, Zheng DF,et al.Analysis on drug resistance of non-tuberculosis mycobacterium in Sichuan province. Sichuan Medical Journal.2012;33(10):1835-1837.

40.Li DY, Yang Y, Liu XJ, Yang XR, Long B, Xiang M,et al. The analysis of drug susceptiblity test results of nontubeculous mycobacterium in Sichuan province. Parasitoses and Infectious Diseases.2012; 10(3):159-161.

41.Li H, Jin HJ, Ma XG, Chen AL, Jin XW, Yang HY. Analysis on multidrug -resistant tuberculosis survellance under DOTS impletation in Xinmi contry. Chin J antituberc.2012; 34(1):10-14.

42.Liu G, Wang Q, Gan XX, Xu DF. The analysis of drug susceptibility test result among 110 nontuberculous mycobacteria isolates Chin J Tuberc Respir Dis.2012; 35(8):616-617.

43.Liu YD, Hao XH, Tang SJ, Fang YY, Lv Y.The analysis of drug susceptibility test results of 170 nontuberculous mycobacterium isolates. Chin J Clinicians. 2012; 6(19):6018-6020.

44.Liu Y, Li JL. The analysis of species identification and drug susceptibility test among 10315 suscepted tuberculosis patients. Xianjiang medicine. 2012; 42:64-65.

45.Shao JB, Wang XD, Zhang WH, Shi Xd, Bo SC. The survey of drug susceptibility test against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Nainjing Jiangsu J prev med .2012; 23(3):42-43.

46.Shao YZ, Fan CL, wang J, Ji DY, Quan BY, Li D,et al.Molecular identification of Mycobacterium clinically isolated strains of bacteria. Chin J endemiol.2012; 31(2):182-187.

47.Wang Q, Wu LQ, Li JL, Mu YC, M. X, Ma RY.Xinjiang region in 2009-2011 the mycobacterium tuberculosis drug sensitivity test results. The journal of Practical Medicine.2012;28(22):3827-3829.

48.Wang SW, Li M, Yin CY, Hu CM.Tha analysis of drug susceptibility test results among nontuberculous mycobaterium isolates in Nanjing. Journal of clinical pulmonary medicine .2012;17(4):764-765.

49.Wen ZL. Identification and molecular characterization of drug-resistant mycobacteria isolateds recovered from Wuhan,China. Master's thesis 2012.

50.Wu LZ, Tan SY, Tan YJ, Yang JL, Pan MY, Chen JF, et al. The results of drug susceptibility test in 1819 non-tuberculosis mycobacterial strain. Chin J antituberc .2012;34(12):821-824.

51.Xie N.The analysis of trends in nontuberculous mycobaterium infection and drug resistance. Guangxi medical Journal .2012; 34(3):355-356.

52.Xu YH, Cui ZL, HU ZY, He JL, Luo B, Yue Y, et al. An analysis on 200 randomized clinical isolares of Mycobacteriura in Sichua. Chin J Mierobiol Immunol .2012; 32(6):555-560.

53.Fan DP, Chen GS, Wu SH, Xu LH, Wang XJ. The drug susceptibility test results of 723 tuberculosis patients. Zhejiang Preventive Medicine.2013;25(12):42-45.

54.Fang MT, Su YF, Liu HM, Liu GH, Zeng JF, Zhang HM,et al. Clinical analysis of 93 patients with non-tuberculous mycobacteria pulmonary disease. Beijing Medical Journal. 2013;35(9):777-779.

55.Guan ZD.Tuberculosis patients with Drug-resistant and impact factors. chinese Journal of Medicine Guide.2013;15(7):1236-1237.

56.Hong YQ, Zhou HJ. The comparasion of differnet method on detecting tuberculosis among 68 suspected tuberculosis patients. World Health Digest Medical Periodieal .2013;10(6):217-218.

57.Jiang WP, Sun CH. Analysis of drug susceptibility test results of mycobacteriumtuberculosis in Zhenjiang city. Chin J Health Lab Tec .2013; 23(17):3457-3459.

58.Li P, Liu JM, Tan C.The survey of drug resistance against mycobacterium tuberculosis in Yichan medical periodicals. 2013;382-383.

59.Liang JQ, Li HM, F. GH, Liu YY, Wang JH, Wu LH, et al. PCR-fluorescent probe in rapid detection of genotypes of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis .Chin J Nosocomio. 2013;23(21):5140-5142.

60.Liu W, Shao YB, Wu JF. The analysis of drug susceptibiliy test results against non-tuberculous mycobacterim in Yancheng region. Jiangsu J prev med. 2013; 24(7):46-47.

61.Lu w, Zhou Y, Chen C, Liu Q, Ding XY, Shao Y,et al. Prevalence and risk factors for drug resistance tuberculosis in Jiangsu Province: a population based study. Chin J Dis Control Pre .2013;17(7):560-563.

62.Luo CM, Zou GM, Liu GB, Huang YZ, Tan SY, Tan YJ,et al.Species identification of nontuberculous mycobacterial isolates in Guangzhou,2003-2012. The annual conference of Chinese antituberculosis association in 2013.2013:120-122.

63.Qv MY, Feng WT, Liu YK.Analysis of Drug susceptibility test results among 471 suspected tuberculosis patients. J Clin Res.2013;30(9):1800-1802.

64.sill za Te A, Jia na er H. The characteristic and Drug susceptibilty test results against 127 mycobacteria tuberculsosis isolates. medical discovery .2013;(9):163.

65.Wang ZC, Jiao X, Y.The drug susceptibility test results of 64 nontuberculous Mycobacterium isolates to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs. JOurnal of North pharmacy.2013;10(11):34-35.

66.Wu W, Zhang JH, Liu QL, Zhu SW, Zhang Y, F. WZ. Analysis on sputum culture and drug susceptibility testing for 1976 cases patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Modern Preventive Medicine.2013;40(19):3678-3690.

67.Yang Y, Li DY, Gao WF, Long B, Lu RS, Zheng DF. comparison of Sputum Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis in plain and hilly regions of Sichuan. parasitoses and infections Disease.2013; 11(4):204-206.

68.Zhang J, Sun BQ, Sun XH, .Y. L. the analysis of nontuberculous mycobacteria infection and drug susceptibility test results in Shenyang,2008-2012. Shandong medicine .2013; 53(35):49-51.

69.Zhao B, Shi JY, Pang Y, Xia H, Li Q, Ou X, et al.Evaluation of genechip in detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the prefectural-level laboratory. Chin J antituberc. 2013;35(9):718-722.

70.Chen HQ, Tang LS.The drug susceptibilty test results of 119 nontuberculous mycobacterium. Medicine Information. 2014; 27(6):70-71.

71.He LX, Zhu JL, Li YN, Guo FH. The clinical characteristics analysis on 30 cases of nontuberculosis mycobacterium lung infection patients. J Med Pest Control. 2014; 30(6):669-671.

72.Huang MX, WAN KL, Chen LZ, Zhang LS, Li D.Distribution of nontuberculous mycobacteria of clinical mycobacterium isolates from Fujian province,China. Chinese Journal of Zoonoses .2014; 30(12):1227-1230.

73.Huang SH, Liu FY, Xu G, B., Wu TY, Liang DB, huang MY. Retrospective analysis of the prevalence of drug resistance in the drug resistant suspects among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Guangxi. Applied Prev Med. 2014;20(5):272-276.

74.Jiang J, Zhang XL. analysis of the results of bacteria identification and drug sensitivity test among patients with culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Suzhou. J Tuber Lung Health .2014; 3(2):91-95.

75.Li AM, Li FF, Tang SM, Hou H. identification and analysis of mycobacterium isolated from clinical samples in ShenZhen. Int J LAb Med.2014;35(18):2510-2511.

76.Ping GH, yu M, Pan AZ, Che Y. Analysis the spectrum of pathogens of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in Ningbo. JOurnal of Hygiene research .2014; 43(5):849-850.

77.Qi ZQ, Xiang YG, Tang AM, Shi AM, Yu R. Gene chips typing and drug sensitivity analysis of 225 cases of non-tuberculous mycobacteria. Journal of clinical pulmonary medicine.2014; 19(1):105-107.

78.Shan WS, Xiao YY, Luo K, Deng QY, Liu HM. Analysis of infectious status of mycobacterium and drug resistance of mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of clinical pulmonary medicine. 2014; 19(6):1046-1048.

79.Shao RB, Liu W, Yin J. The analysis of drug susceptibility results in Yancheng,2012. Journal of Nantong university. 2014;34(1):72-74.

80.Tong L. A study on scraping materials from positive acid-fast stained sputum smear for amplification of mycobacterium. Master's thesis 2014.

81.Wang Z, Gong YH, Qian.C.T., Sun CH, Zhou LP, Fu XL, et al. Analysis of DNA fingerprint classification and drug resistance of mycobacterium tuberculosis in Zhenjiang. Chin J of Clinical Rational Drug Use. 2014; 7(12):15-17.

82.Wang J, Zhu M, Zhang Y, Yue YN, Hu YQ, Fan DP, et al. The analysis of drug susceptibility test results among culture-positive newly registered Patients Zhejiang Prey Med. 2014;26(12):1240-1242.

83.Wu HL, Zhang CY, Huang YC. Drug susceptibility test and homology analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in the southern region of Xinjiang. Chin J Clin Lab Sci .2014;32(2):144-147.

84.Wu YE, Peng WG, ZHeng GZ, Mai RQ, Wu QH.Study on drug resistance and drug resistant spectrum of mycobacterium tuberculosis in Chaoshan area. Chin J School Doctor .2014; 28(4):263-265.

85.Zhang J, Wu TH, Shi JY, Liu FJ, wang XH. Analysis of results of drug resistance monitoring among smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Donghai County from 2011 to 2012. Chin J School Doctor. 2014; 28(3):191-193.

86.Zhang S, Chen QY, Zhou WY, Jing C, Shi YH. Situation analysis of mycobacterium tuberculosis and nontuberculosis mycobacteria drug resistance in Yangzhou. Modern Medicine Journal of China .2014; 16(4):51-53.

87.Xu GH, Chen H, Zhao LC, Chen ZY, Huang LD. Analysis of drug susceptibility test results against 2732 acid fast strains in Jiangmen. Guangdong Medical Journal. 2015; 36(4):599-601.

88.Zhang T, LV CF, Lu LZ, Zheng WB, Li LL. Evaluation of rapid assay for identification of mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of clinical pulmonary medicine .2015;20(5):799-781.

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92.Jing H, Wang H, Wang Y, Deng Y, Li X, Liu Z, et al.Prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacteria infection, China, 2004-2009. Emerging Infectious Diseases.2012; 18(3):527-528.

93.Wang X, Li H, Jiang G, Zhao L, Ma Y, Javid B, Huang H. Prevalence and drug resistance of nontuberculous mycobacteria, Northern China, 2008-2011. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2014;20(7):1252-1253.

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98.Liu ZH, Luo CM, Cai XS. Analysis on the current situation of Mycobacteria other than tuberculosis during 1994- 2003 in the oldcity area of Guangzhou. Chin J Epidemiol. 2005;26(6):424-7.

99. Li Q, Zhang CY, Yan XY. Analysis of the bacterial Type and drug resitance of 443 Tuberculosis Mycobaterium Strains Chinese Journal of medicinal Guide. 2010;12(2):352-3.

100.Cui XK, Tian YS, Dong SF, Wang J, wang JY, Wan ZJ. Bactec system for identifying Nontuberculous mycobacterium and drug susceptibility test results. Hebei medical Journal. 2001;23(10):767-8.

101.Tian YS, Xu QH, Cui XK, Feng ZL, Lin GD, Zhang GQ. radip detection in nontuberculous mycobacterium by using screening machine. Chin J Lab med. 2001;24(2):242.

102.Huang JH, Wu B, Zhang Y. Clinical analysis of 182 mycobacterium tuberculosis strains on drug susceptibility test results. Jiangsu Med J. 2002;28(6):457-8.

103. Jin FL, Tang JL, Sun XJ, Zhu GL, Wang HJ, Li SF, et al. Analysis on antimicrobial resistance of 60 nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Shaoxing. Chin J Inf ect Chemother. 2004;4(5):300-2.

104.Liang L, Zhang YY, Yue J, Jing LJ, Gao RL, Xiao HP. Susceptibility Pattern and Epidemiology of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Shanghai. Chin J Nosocomio. 2009;17(7):895-7.

105.Wu LZ, Chen SY, Zeng SF, Fan MY, Xu YY. Analysis of the changes in bacterial types and drug sensitivity profiles of myeobacterial strains in Guangzhou over the last twelve years. Chin J prev Med. 2011;45(1):26-9.