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Fully Automated Liquid Culture System Compared with Lowenstein-Jensen Solid Medium for Rapid Recovery of Mycobacteria in Sputums  

Park, Seung-Kyu (Clinical Research Center for Tuberculosis, National Masan TB Hospital)
Kim, Seung-Chul (Department of Microbiology, Yonsei University Medical School)
Kim, Deuk-Mi (Clinical Research Center for Tuberculosis, National Masan TB Hospital)
Lee, Chang-Woon (Clinical Research Center for Tuberculosis, National Masan TB Hospital)
Kim, Young (Clinical Research Center for Tuberculosis, National Masan TB Hospital)
Cho, Sang-Nae (Department of Microbiology, Yonsei University Medical School)
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases / v.53, no.6, 2002 , pp. 635-643 More about this Journal
Abstract
Background : The Aim of this study was to compare the recovery of mycobacteria from sputum samples of pulmonary tuberculosis patients using the MB/BacT rapid culture system(Organon Teknika, USA) with that obtained using Lowenstein-Jensen solid medium. Methods : The two culture systems were compared using sputum samples of 99 pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Culture media were incubated at $35-37^{\circ}C$ for six weeks in the MB/BacT system and for 12 weeks in Lowenstein-Jensen solid medium. Solid media were examined macroscopically once a week, and the MB/BacT system positive vials were unloaded from the machine as soon as possible after positive signal from the connected computer was detected Confirmation of growth for mycobacteria was done by Ziehl-Neelson stained smears. Isolates were identified to differentiate Mycobacterium tuberculosis from mycobacterium other than tuberculosis(MOTT) by phenotypic and molecular methods. Results : Of the sputum samples of the 99 patients, 58 samples were smear positive and 41 in negative smear. Mycobacteria were recovered from 67(67.7%) samples by using both culture systems. The yield with MB/BacT was higher than that with Lowenstein-Jensen [67(67.7%) vs. 52(52.5%), p<0.001]. Moreover, 15(15.2%) samples were positive only in the MB/BacT, whereas none of samples was positive only in Lowenstein-Jensen. In smear-positive and smear-negative samples, the recovery rate with MB/BacT was also higher than that with Lowenstein-Jensen [sputum-positive; 56/58(96.6%) vs. 46/58(79.3%), p=0.005, sputum-negative; 6/41(14.6%) vs. 5/41(12.2%), p<0.001]. The mean times to detection of Mycobacteria were 13.3 and 27.2 days with MB/BacT and Lowenstein-Jensen respectively(p<0.001). Conclusion : This results indicate that the the MB/BacT is more efficient and faster than Lowenstein-Jensen for the recovery of mycobacteria.
Keywords
MB/BacT; L-J medium; M.tuberculosis;
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