Usefulness of Myco/F Lytic blood cultures (Bactec 9050) in the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteraemia in HIV-infected patients in Portugal

Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Conventional BacT/ALERT FA Blood Culture Bottles Allows Reliable Diagnosis of Mycobacteremia

“…However, studies concluded that mycobacterial blood cultures added little to the conventional diagnostic work-up (2,8) or were performed in areas where mycobacteria are endemic (8) and frequently in developing nations (6) where the use of expensive blood cultures is often beyond the already overstretched resources. Contrary to this, the results presented here corroborate a previous observation that blood cultures can be a useful tool for cultural confirmation of tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients in Portugal (4).…”

“…It has been shown that automated blood culture systems, essentially using some kind of Middlebrook-based broth, allow the detection of mycobacteria, including M. tuberculosis (2,4,6,8). However, studies concluded that mycobacterial blood cultures added little to the conventional diagnostic work-up (2,8) or were performed in areas where mycobacteria are endemic (8) and frequently in developing nations (6) where the use of expensive blood cultures is often beyond the already overstretched resources.…”

Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: Clinical Importance and Relevance to Bacille Calmette-Guerin Vaccination

“…Some authors question whether the decontamination of biological specimens for mycobacterial cultures might reduce the sensitivity for detection of NTM in some circumstances. However, low rates of isolation of NTM in mycobacterial cultures of blood samples-a type of specimen not subjected to decontamination procedures-obtained from HIV-infected patients were also reported [8].…”