Diagnostics
"'BACTEC-By-Mail' to Improve Turnaround Time for the Control of Tuberculosis."
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 25th, 1995
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 95th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, held May 21-25, 1995, in Washington, D.C., "In addition to the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) laboratories, there are a number of autonomous public health laboratories (PHL) with mycobacterial expertise serving counties, many of which do not have the workload volume to qualify for a BACTEC TB 460 instrument. This results in slower notification of tuberculosis (TB) cases to the county TB control officers. In an attempt to resolve the problem, the Microbial Diseases Laboratory (MDL) of the CDHS did a pilot 'BACTEC-by-mail' study with Mendocino and Butte...
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