title: [Automated methods of culture determination of M. tuberculosis in liquid media].
abstract: A hundred and seventy respiratory samples from patients with different forms of tuberculosis were used to test the efficiency of the automatic liquid culture systems BACTEC MGIT 960 and MB/BacT with inoculation into the standard dense media. All these media provided 47 M. tuberculous isolates, of them 41 (87.2%), 38 (80.9%), and 76.6% on the BACTER 960, MB/BacT, and dense media, respectively. The average time of detection of mycobacterial growth by means of automatic systems was much shorter and equal to 10.7 days on the BACTEC 960 and 18.7 days on the MB/BacT versus 33.2 days on the standard dense medium. In terms of their sensitivity and detection rate, the automatic systems were superior to the dense media widely used in laboratory practice.
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Irtuganova
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Smirnova
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Slogotskaia
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Moroz
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Litvinov
mesh_terms: D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D003470:Culture Media; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media
vernacular_title: Avtomatizirovannye metody kul'tural'nogo opredeleniia M. tuberculosis na zhidkikh sredakh,