Subramanyam Balaji, Sivaramakrishnan Gomathi, Sangamithrai Devi, Ravi Rajkumar, Thiruvengadam Kannan, Vijayaragavan Vaishnavi, Selvaraju Ayswarya, Tripathy Srikanth Prasad, Mondal Rajesh
Department of Bacteriology, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India.
Int J Microbiol. 2020 Jul 18;2020:1721020. doi: 10.1155/2020/1721020. eCollection 2020.
Optimal recovery of mycobacteria from the contaminated liquid culture is a challenge. While alternative methods have been suggested to reduce the rate of contamination in the BACTEC MGIT 960 system, reprocessing the contaminated liquid culture improves recovery of . Among 793 MGIT cultures raised from as many sputum specimens after primary decontamination by the standard NaLC-NaOH method, valid results were available for 687 (86.6%) as 106 (13.4%) were contaminated. Reprocessing and reculturing of the contaminated cultures increased valid results to 739 (93.2%) and reduced the contamination rate to 6.8%. Both values were statistically significant. Recovery of the complex increased from 45.6% to 48.4%. Valid negative results were available for an additional 3.4%. The method may be adopted to reduce the rate of contamination and to improve the valid culture results for mycobacteria.
从受污染的液体培养物中最佳地回收分枝杆菌是一项挑战。虽然已提出替代方法来降低BACTEC MGIT 960系统中的污染率,但对受污染的液体培养物进行再处理可提高回收效果。在用标准的NaLC-NaOH方法进行初次去污后,从793份痰液标本中培养出MGIT培养物,其中687份(86.6%)获得了有效结果,106份(13.4%)受到污染。对受污染的培养物进行再处理和重新培养后,有效结果增加到739份(93.2%),污染率降低到6.8%。这两个值均具有统计学意义。分枝杆菌复合物的回收率从45.6%提高到48.4%。另外还有3.4%获得了有效的阴性结果。该方法可用于降低污染率并改善分枝杆菌的有效培养结果。