IDENTIFICATION OF MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS AND MYCOBACTERIUM-AVIUM COMPLEX DIRECTLY FROM SMEAR-POSITIVE SPUTUM SPECIMENS AND BACTEC 12B CULTURES BY HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH FLUORESCENCE DETECTION AND COMPUTER-DRIVEN PATTERN-RECOGNITION MODELS
Kc. Jost et al., IDENTIFICATION OF MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS AND MYCOBACTERIUM-AVIUM COMPLEX DIRECTLY FROM SMEAR-POSITIVE SPUTUM SPECIMENS AND BACTEC 12B CULTURES BY HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH FLUORESCENCE DETECTION AND COMPUTER-DRIVEN PATTERN-RECOGNITION MODELS, Journal of clinical microbiology, 33(5), 1995, pp. 1270-1277
A high-performance liquid chromatography method that utilized fluoresc
ence detection (HPLC-FL) of mycolic acid 6,7-dimethoxycoumarin esters
was developed to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and M. aviu
m complex (MAC) directly from fluorochrome stain smear-positive sputum
specimens and young BACTEC 12B cultures. HPLC-FL chromatograms from a
training set that included 202 smear-positive clinical sputum specime
ns and 343 mycobacterial cultures were used to construct a calibrated
peak naming table and computer-based pattern recognition models for MT
B and MAC. Pattern recognition model performance was measured with an
evaluation see of samples that included 251 smear-positive clinical sp
utum specimens and 167 BACTEC 12B cultures. Evaluation sputum specimen
s were culture positive for MTB (n = 132) and MAC (n = 48). With evalu
ation sputa, the MTB and MAC models were 56.8 and 33.3% sensitive, res
pectively. Evaluation set BACTEC 12B cultures were culture positive fo
r MTB (n = 97) and MAC (n = 53). The sensitivities of the MTB and MAC
models for identification of BACTEC 12B cultures were 99.0 and 94.3%,
respectively. The specificity of both models was 100% for both types o
f evaluation samples. The average times from BACTEC 12B inoculation to
cell harvest mere 10.2 and 7.4 days for MTB and MAC, respectively. HP
LC-FL can identify MTB and MAC in 1 day from many smear-positive sputa
. Rapid and sensitive identification of MTB and MAC from young BACTEC
12B cultures was achieved.