Mycobacterium avium
"Isolation of Blood-borne Mycobacterium avium by Using the Nonradioactive BACTEC 9000 MB System and Comparison with a Solid-Culture System."
Published in Blood Weekly, December 28th, 1998
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, "We conducted a 12-month prospective study comparing two approaches to the detection of Mycobacterium avium in the blood of human immunodeficiency virus type I-infected patients, namely, a lytic centrifugation system combined with Middlebrook solid culture medium (the conventional procedure) and the nonradiometric BACTEC 9000 MB system. Species identification relied on 16S rRNA probe hybridization and cell wall fatty acids chromatography. M. avium was isolated in 17 of 345 (5%) blood specimens by the BACTEC 9000 MB automated system and in 14 of 345 (4%) blood specimens by...
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Source: Blood Weekly (1998-12-28)
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