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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2005, p. 442-444, Vol. 43, No. 1
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/JCM.43.1.442-444.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
Cetyl-Pyridinium Chloride Is Useful for Isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Sputa Subjected to Long-Term Storage
Manuela Pardini,1
Francis Varaine,2
Elisabetta Iona,1
Erchanik Arzumanian,3
Francesco Checchi,4
Marco Rinaldo Oggioni,5
Graziella Orefici,1 and
Lanfranco Fattorini1*
Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive, Parassitarie e Immunomediate, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome,1
Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy,5
Médecins Sans Frontières,2
Epicentre, Paris, France,4
Guliripchi Tuberculosis Hospital, Sukhumi, Abkhazia3
Received 27 May 2004/
Returned for modification 6 July 2004/
Accepted 31 August 2004
Recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputa treated with cetyl-pyridinium chloride (CPC) and stored for 20 ± 9 days was significantly higher than that from sputa that were untreated and processed by the N-acetyl-L-cisteine-NaOH method. Addition of CPC is useful for isolation of M. tuberculosis from sputa subjected to long-term storage received from remote areas of the world.
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive, Parassitarie e Immunomediate, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy. Phone: 39 06 49903167. Fax: 39 06 49387112. E-mail: fattolan{at}iss.it.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2005, p. 442-444, Vol. 43, No. 1
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/JCM.43.1.442-444.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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