Decontamination methods for samples preserved in cetylpyridinium chloride and cultured on thin-layer agar.
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Ardizzoni et al-2014-Decontami ...
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Long transportation times of samples to culture laboratories can lead to higher contamination rates and significant loss of viability, resulting in lower culture positivity rates. Thin-layer agar (TLA) is a sensitive culture method for the isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that has been optimised with N-acetyl-L-cysteine-sodium hydroxide (NALC-NaOH) decontaminated samples. The combination of the TLA culture method and other decontamination procedures has not been extensively validated.PubMed ID
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1815-7920ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.5588/ijtld.13.0887