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Visual Identification Not Adequate for TB Identification

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 8th, 1998

Visual identification as part of high performance liquid chromatography evaluation may falsely identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates as either M. gastri or M. bovis BCG, according to a report from Quebec.

"Considering the public health importance of M. tuberculosis, additional selective tests should be performed for strains producing a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) pattern of M. gastri or M. bovis BCG," researcher Louise Thibert and colleagues noted in a presentation to the 98th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, held May 17-21, 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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