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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 03 1997, 588-590, Vol 35, No. 3
Copyright © 1997 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Isolator component responsible for inhibition of Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare in BACTEC 12B medium

BL Wasilauskas and RM Morrell Jr
Department of Pathology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA. bwasilau@bgsm.edu

We previously reported an inhibitory effect on Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare (MAI) when blood collected and processed with the Isolator system was placed in BACTEC 12B bottles for radiometric monitoring. We sought to identify the specific component(s) of the Isolator lysis-anticoagulant reagent (LAR) responsible for the inhibitory effect. We added the three components of the LAR, saponin, polyanetholesulfonate, and polypropylene glycol (PPG), to triplicate sets of BACTEC bottles separately and in various combinations. These bottles were then seeded with 10(2) CFU of MAI. The growth index (GI) was observed over a 42-day period and was compared with the GI for a growth control bottle set with no reagents and with the GI for a bottle set containing an equivalent volume of LAR. Growth in all growth control bottles and those bottles containing no PPG reached the maximum GI (GI = 999) within 8 to 10 days. Growth in bottles containing PPG never reached the maximum GI before day 14. In addition, the GIs of one bottle containing all three reagent components as well as all of the bottles containing actual Isolator LAR failed to reach the maximum within 42 days. Our data suggest that PPG is the main cause of the inhibitory effect, but that a secondary synergistic interaction between all three of the reagents may also be present.

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