Abstract
The rapid and accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in children and extrapulmonary TB in adults continues to be a challenge. In this study, we determined the lower limit of detection (LOD) of the GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay with nonrespiratory specimens and investigated the utility of flotation procedures for concentrating the bacilli. Clinical specimens (9 cerebrospinal fluid [CSF], 13 gastric aspirate, 8 tissue, and 17 stool) were spiked with single-celled Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and the LOD of the GeneXpert assay was determined. Flotation studies were conducted with sucrose and NaCl, and the cycle thresholds of the MTB/RIF assay were compared between treated and untreated samples. There was no significant difference between the LODs of the GeneXpert assay with saline solution (median, 33 CFU/ml) and CSF (median, 25 CFU/ml) (P > 0.05) or gastric aspirate samples (median, 58 CFU/ml) (P > 0.05). The LOD with spiked tissue (median, 1,525 CFU/ml) and stool samples (median, 6,800 CFU/ml) was significantly elevated compared to that determined with saline solution (P ≤ 0.05 and ≤ 0.0005, respectively). Flotation studies with sucrose or NaCl did not consistently result in lowered cycle thresholds in stool or gastric aspirates, but ...Continue Reading
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