Its main advantage is the cheap, rapid microbiological isolation of M. tuberculosis from CSF and the potential to perform DST within a clinically useful timeframe.
There were no differences in microbiological isolation, or bacterial resistance patterns between the two entities.
According to this pattern of sensitivity, 38.1 % of patients with microbiological isolation in the bronchial sample received inappropriate empirical antibiotic therapy.
Neither technique allows for the microbiological isolation of M. tuberculosis and subsequent drug susceptibility testing.
ZN smear and diagnostic algorithms do not allow for the microbiological isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) or identification of drug resistance.
Microbiological isolation and biochemical identification procedures were conducted according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute procedures (CLSI) [ 12].
Microbiological isolation of the organism is the theoretical gold standard for the detection of H. pylori infections.
In another patient, the Mantoux was 8 mm, but with pathological chest radiography and microbiological isolation of M. tuberculosis.
Although some examples provided in this report were handled in biosafety level 3 laboratories at CDC, other examples were handled as routine microbiological isolations in hospitals or public health departments equipped to perform routine virus isolation.
