Recovery of Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare from blood specimens by using the routine BACTEC 6B blood culture system
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 27 (2), 348-349
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.27.2.348-349.1989
Abstract
We describe a simple technique for recovery of Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare from blood culture specimens by using the BACTEC 460, a system used for routine blood cultures in many hospital laboratories. A total of 26 of 215 blood specimens (12%) from 11 of 48 patients (23%) with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related complex yielded isolates of M. avium-M. intracellulare. Acid-fast staining of prepared specimens was positive for 16 of 26 cultures that ultimately yielded the organism.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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