This dataset contains patient records of pulmonary isolation of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) from North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health, local soil data from the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO, Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture), land use data from the 2011 National Land Cover Database (NLCD), paved and dirt road data from the 2010 Navteq street dataset, and census-block level characteristics from the U.S. Census. The data is aggregated at the census-block level. This dataset is not publicly accessible because: EPA cannot release personally identifiable information regarding living individuals, according to the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This dataset contains information about human research subjects. Because there is potential to identify individual participants and disclose personal information, either alone or in combination with other datasets, individual level data are not appropriate to post for public access. Restricted access may be granted to authorized persons by contacting the party listed. It can be accessed through the following means: Access is restricted because it contains PII. Format: sas7bdat.

This dataset is associated with the following publication: Deflorio-Barker, S., A. Egorov, G. Smith, M.S. Murphy, J. Stout, A. Ghio, E. Hudgens, K. Messier, J. Maillard, and E. Hilborn. Environmental risk factors associated with pulmonary isolation of nontuberculous mycobacteria, a population-based study in the southeastern United States. Scott Sheridan SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. Elsevier BV, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 763: 144552, (2021).