TABLE 7.

Times to detection for various organisms

Organism	Mean time to detection (days) ± SD with:
	ESP	BACTEC	L-J medium
All mycobacteria	18.07 ± 9.33	17.77 ± 10.17	27.78 ± 11.54
M. tuberculosis complex	19.06 ± 8.70	18.61 ± 9.69	28.56 ± 10.80
MAC	10.26 ± 5.85	11.04 ± 5.20	21.00 ± 12.49
Other MOTT	24.26 ± 9.15	24.39 ± 13.68	44.46 ± 11.59