Tuberculosis
New findings in tuberculosis described by C. Pheiffer and co-researchers
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 12th, 2008
"To investigate whether time to detection (TTD) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in BACTEC Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) 960 and BACTEC 460 TB systems can be used as an alternative to colony-forming unit (cfu) counting. A single sputum sample recovered from each of 22 patients with tuberculosis (TB) was cultured on Middlebrook 7H11 agar and in BACTEC MGIT 960 and BACTEC 460 to investigate the relationship between cfu/ml and TTD," researchers in South Africa report.
"The relationship between TTD and treatment response was investigated by culturing a single sputum sample from each of 125 patients with TB in the BACTEC 460 system and comparing TTD values with...
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