Diagnostics (TB)
"Comparison of the BACTEC fluorescent 9000 MB System, Septi-Check AFB and Lowenstein-Jensen Medium for Detection of Mycobacteria."
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 28th, 1996
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 11th International Conference on AIDS, held July 7-12, 1996, in Vancouver, British Columbia, "The newly developed BACTEC fluorescent 9000 MB system (Becton Dickinson Diagnostic Instrument Systems, Sparks, Md.) for automated culture of mycobacteria was compared with the Septi-Check AFB system (SC) (Becton Dickinson) and Lowenstein-Jensen medium (LJ). A total of 2,005 clinical, mainly respiratory, specimens were included in the study. Mycobacteria were isolated from 202 (10.1%) specimens; including 155 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates and 47 mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOTT) isolates. Of 131 isolates...
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