Value of the Chlorhexidine Decontamination Method for Recovery of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria from Sputum Samples of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 44 (6) , 2237-2239
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00285-06
Abstract
The chlorhexidine method was compared to the N -acetyl- l -cysteine-NaOH-oxalic acid decontamination method currently recommended for the recovery of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) from patients with cystic fibrosis. Sputum samples ( n = 827) treated with chlorhexidine yielded twice as many NTM-positive cultures as those treated by the reference method (54 [6.50%] versus 27 [3.25%]; P < 0.0001) despite a higher contamination rate (20% versus 14.2%; P = 0.0017).Keywords
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