| Literature DB >> 21653761 |
John A Crump1, Anne B Morrissey, Habib O Ramadhani, Boniface N Njau, Venance P Maro, L Barth Reller.
Abstract
We compared the performance of the BacT/Alert MB system, that of the manual Bactec Myco/F Lytic procedure, and that of the Isolator 10 lysis-centrifugation system in the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia. Mean times to detection were 16.4 days for BacT/Alert MB versus 20.0 days for Myco/F Lytic, 16.5 days for BacT/Alert MB versus 23.8 days for Isolator 10, and 21.1 days for Bactec Myco/F Lytic versus 22.7 days for Isolator 10. There were no significant differences in yields. The mean (range) magnitude of mycobacteremia was 30.0 (0.4, 90.0) CFU/ml and was correlated with the time to positivity in the BacT/Alert MB system (r = -0.4920). M. tuberculosis bacteremia was detected more rapidly in a continuously monitored liquid blood culture system, but the mean time to positivity exceeded 3 weeks.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21653761 PMCID: PMC3147725 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01035-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948