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Fast, Simple, and Cheap: the Kudoh-Ogawa Swab Method as an Alternative to the Petroff–Lowenstein-Jensen Method for Culturing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

2020; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 58; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/jcm.01424-19

ISSN

1098-660X

Autores

Greta Franco-Sotomayor, Ismar A. Rivera‐Olivero, Margarita León-Benítez, Sandra E. Uruchima-Campoverde, Greta Esther Cardenas-Franco, Mercedes E. Perdomo-Castro, Camilo S. Cardenas-Franco, Jackeline Ortega-Vivanco, Ana S. Abad-Ruiz, Jacobus H. de Waard, Miguel Ángel García-Bereguiain,

Tópico(s)

Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis

Resumo

The objective of this study was to compare the diagnostic yield of the Kudoh-Ogawa (K-O) swab method for the culturing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from clinical samples with the standard Petroff–Lowenstein-Jensen (P-LJ) procedure. A total of 2,287 sputum samples and 685 extrapulmonary clinical specimens were processed with both decontamination methods and compared for M. tuberculosis detection rate, recovery of M. tuberculosis colonies, and culture contamination.

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