Cetyl-pyridinium chloride is useful for isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputa subjected to long-term storage.

Manuela Pardini; Francis Varaine; Elisabetta Iona; Erchanik Arzumanian; Francesco Checchi

; Marco Rinaldo Oggioni; Graziella Orefici; Lanfranco Fattorini; (2005) Cetyl-pyridinium chloride is useful for isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputa subjected to long-term storage. Journal of clinical microbiology, 43 (1). pp. 442-444. ISSN 0095-1137 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.1.442-444.2005

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Recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputa treated with cetyl-pyridinium chloride (CPC) and stored for 20 +/- 9 days was significantly higher than that from sputa that were untreated and processed by the N-acetyl-L-cisteine-NaOH method. Addition of CPC is useful for isolation of M. tuberculosis from sputa subjected to long-term storage received from remote areas of the world.

Item Type	Article
Keywords	Anti-Infective Agents, Local/pharmacology, Bacteriological Techniques, Cetylpyridinium/pharmacology, Culture Media, Humans, Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolation & purification, Specimen Handling/methods, Sputum/drug effects/microbiology, Time Factors, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/microbiology, Anti-Infective Agents, Local, pharmacology, Bacteriological Techniques, Cetylpyridinium, pharmacology, Culture Media, Humans, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, isolation & purification, Specimen Handling, methods, Sputum, drug effects, microbiology, Time Factors, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary, microbiology
ISI	226380400066