Tuberculosis

Fluorescent Microscopy Makes Most of Single Sputum Sample

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 23rd, 2001

When patients only provide one specimen for tuberculosis analysis, researchers suggest that fluorescent microscopy (FM) instead of Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) analysis be used.

When two samples are available, though, both methods should be used, they say.

The researchers work in the Department of Microbiology at Harran University Medical School in Turkey. It was in the medical school's hospital where M. Ulukanligil and associates were able to obtain 465 specimens from 295 patients. Single specimens were acquired from 201 patients. Each of the patient samples was submitted to the laboratory for culture and ZN or FM analysis.

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