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Agnès Ferroni1, Hoang Vu-Thien, Philippe Lanotte, Muriel Le Bourgeois, Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus, Brigitte Fauroux, Sophie Marchand, Françoise Varaigne, Patrick Berche, Jean-Louis Gaillard, Catherine Offredo.
Abstract
The chlorhexidine method was compared to the N-acetyl-l-cysteine-NaOH-oxalic acid decontamination method currently recommended for the recovery of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) from patients with cystic fibrosis. Sputum samples (n = 827) treated with chlorhexidine yielded twice as many NTM-positive cultures as those treated by the reference method (54 [6.50%] versus 27 [3.25%]; P < 0.0001) despite a higher contamination rate (20% versus 14.2%; P = 0.0017).Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16757627 PMCID: PMC1489418 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00285-06
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948