EVALUATING CURRENT METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OFMYCOBACTERIA TO PYRAZINAMIDE, CONVENTIONAL, RADIOMETRIC BACTEC AND 2 METHODS OF PYRAZINAMIDASE TESTING
Rr. Cutler et al., EVALUATING CURRENT METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OFMYCOBACTERIA TO PYRAZINAMIDE, CONVENTIONAL, RADIOMETRIC BACTEC AND 2 METHODS OF PYRAZINAMIDASE TESTING, Letters in applied microbiology, 24(2), 1997, pp. 127-132
The authors compared conventional and Bactec determinations of pyrazin
amide susceptibility with pyrazinamidase activity determined using eit
her standard Dubos Oleic agar or Middlebrooks 7H9 agar. Of the 26 Myco
bacterium tuberculosis tested, Bactec found 16 strains susceptible and
10 resistant, conventional methods found six susceptible and 20 resis
tant. Dubos identified 13 and Middlebrooks 10 strains as producing pyr
azinamidase (susceptible). Of the 11 strains susceptible in Bactec and
resistant by conventional methods, eight produced pyrazinamidase. All
mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (6) and Mycobacterium bovis (2)
were resistant by all methods. Bactec results gave a better correlatio
n with pyrazinamidase results than conventional tests.