Automatized PCR evaluation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in respiratory and nonrespiratory specimens.

FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol

Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, Gaziantep, Turkey.

Published: February 2006

In this study, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates recovered from respiratory and nonrespiratory specimens with culture were evaluated using an automatized PCR method. Specimens with suspected tuberculous disease were decontaminated and concentrated using the standard N-acetyl-L-cysteine NaOH method and were inoculated onto glycerol-supplemented Löwenstein-Jensen media and BACTEC B12 vials. Forty-one specimens with typical colonies on solid media and 127 specimens identified as M. tuberculosis complex in a BACTEC system were selected as the study group. As the control group, 46 specimens without growth on either culture media were selected. The PCR results were positive in 33 (80.5%) and 87 (68.5%) samples that were culture-positive on solid and liquid media, respectively. All (100%) culture-negative specimens within the control group were also negative in the COBAS AMPLICOR Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) PCR method. In conclusion, although it is a fast method for identifying M. tuberculosis complex isolates from clinical specimens, the COBAS AMPLICOR MTB PCR method is found to be less sensitive than culture techniques, we propose therefore that it should only be used in combination with culture results in the clinical diagnosis of tuberculosis.

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