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Comparison of BACTEC MGIT 960 system and BACTEC 460 TB system for growth and detection of Mycobacteria from clinical specimens

Ganeswrie R., and Chui C.S., and Balan S., and Puthucheary S.D., (2004) Comparison of BACTEC MGIT 960 system and BACTEC 460 TB system for growth and detection of Mycobacteria from clinical specimens. Malaysian Journal of Pathology, 26 (2). pp. 99-103. ISSN 0126-8635

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Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor Bahru
Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor Bahru
Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor Bahru
University of Malaya, Faculty of Medicine. Dept. of Medical Microbiology

Abstract

This study was carried out to compare the performance of BACTEC MGIT 960 with the BACTEC 460 TB for growth and detection of Mycobacteria from human clinical specimens. The BACTEC MGIT 960 instrument is a fully automated system that utilizes MGIT tubes containing an oxygen sensor embedded in silicon at the bottom and filled with 7 mL of modified Middlebrook 7H9 broth. Identical samples were inoculated into the two automated systems and incubated for six weeks. Over a period of three months, 279 specimens were decontaminated and processed according to the standard CDC NALC/NaOH method, using the commercial MycoPrep kit. Forty-two specimens (15%) yielded Mycobacterium tuberculosis; 37 (88%) were detected by the fluorescent BACTEC MGIT 960 and 35 (83%) detected by the radiometric BACTEC 460 TB. Fifteen specimens (5%) yielded Mycobacterium Other Than Tuberculosis (MOTT); 10 (66%) were detected by BACTEC MGIT 960 and 11 (73%) detected by BACTEC 460 TB. The average time to detection and contamination rates and the average time to obtain results of antimicrobial susceptibility tests between the two systems were compared. The performance of the BACTEC MGIT 960 was comparable to the BACTEC 460 TB system which has been the “Gold Standard” for automated detection of TB. The former was more rapid, as sensitive and less labour intensive than the BACTEC
460. Our data demonstrates that the BACTEC MGIT 960 system is an accurate, automated and a non-radioactive alternative to the BACTEC 460 TB for the culture and susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis.

Item Type:Journal
Keywords:Tuberculosis, BACTEC, rapid detection.
Subjects:R Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing
ID Code:1841

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