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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2001, p. 2311-2312, Vol. 39, No. 6
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.6.2311-2312.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Misidentification and Diagnostic Delay Caused by a False-Positive Amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis Direct Test in an Immunocompetent Patient with a Mycobacterium celatum Infection

Jeroen H. T. Tjhie,1,* Arne F. van Belle,2 Mirjam Dessens-Kroon,3 and Dick van Soolingen3

Departments of Medical Microbiology1 and Respiratory Disease,2 University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, and Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven,3 The Netherlands

Received 19 October 2000/Returned for modification 21 January 2001/Accepted 13 March 2001

The Gen-Probe amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis direct test can give discrepant results directly in respiratory or cultured samples from patients infected with Mycobacterium celatum, leading to inappropriate therapy for, in our case, an immunocompetent patient.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Maastricht, P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht, The Netherlands. Phone: 31 43 3876644. Fax: 31 43 3876643. E-mail: jtj{at}lmib.azm.nl.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2001, p. 2311-2312, Vol. 39, No. 6
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.6.2311-2312.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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