Recent Advances in the Laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis

Slide Culture of Tubercle Bacilli: IV: Further Diagnostic Trials

“…The development of these media and methods has been reviewed recently by Reed and Morgante. 2 One of these is the slide microculture method originally described by Koch3 by which he was able to demonstrate growth of tubercle bacilli within a week. Adaptations of this method by Pryce4 and Rosenberg 5 for diagnostic use were very sensitive, but too cumbersome for routine use.…”