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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 1998, p. 684-689, Vol. 36, No. 3
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Comparative Evaluation of Initial and New Versions of the Gen-Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Respiratory and Nonrespiratory Specimens

Fredy Gamboa,1,2 Gregorio Fernandez,1 Eduardo Padilla,1 José M. Manterola,1,3 Joan Lonca,1 Pere Joan Cardona,1 Lurdes Matas,1,3 and Vicente Ausina1,3,*

Servicio de Microbiologia, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol,1 and Departamento de Genética y Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona,3 Barcelona, Spain, and Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia2

Received 5 August 1997/Returned for modification 10 October 1997/Accepted 2 December 1997

We evaluated the initial version of the Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test (Gen-Probe) (AMTDT 1) and the new version of AMTDT (AMTDT 2) for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from respiratory and nonrespiratory samples and compared the results with those of culture and staining methods. The assays were applied to 410 respiratory and 272 nonrespiratory samples collected from 515 patients. The combination of the culture results and clinical diagnosis was considered to be the "gold standard." Ninety-five respiratory specimens were collected from 67 patients with a diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and 68 nonrespiratory specimens were collected from 61 patients with a diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB. With respiratory specimens, the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were 83, 100, 100, and 96%, respectively, for AMTDT 1 and 94.7, 100, 100, and 98.4%, respectively, for AMTDT 2. With nonrespiratory specimens, the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were 83, 100, 100, and 94%, respectively, for AMTDT 1 and 86.8, 100, 100, and 98.4%, respectively, for AMTDT 2. The overall results of AMTDT 1 and AMTDT 2 were concordant for 97% (661 of 682) of the samples. Statistically significant differences in sensitivities were found between AMTDT 1 and AMTDT 2 with respiratory specimens. It was concluded that although both nucleic acid amplification methods are rapid, sensitive, and specific for the detection of M. tuberculosis complex in all types of clinical samples, AMTDT 2 appeared to be more sensitive than AMTDT 1 when applied to smear-negative specimens. In contrast AMTDT 2 is more susceptible than AMTDT 1 to inhibitory substances in the amplification reaction. The turnaround time of AMTDT 2 is shorter (3.5 h) than that for AMTDT 1 (5 h).

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Carretera del Canyet s/n, 08916 Badalona, Spain. Phone: 34-3-4651200, ext. 393. Fax: 34-3-4657019. E-mail: VAUSINA{at}NS.HUGTIP.SCS.ES.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 1998, p. 684-689, Vol. 36, No. 3
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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