TABLE 1.

Culture results, time to detection, and concentration of brucellae in Isolator and conventional cultures of synovial fluid

Patient	Isolator culture			Conventional culture
	Resulta	Day	CFU/ml	Resulta	Day	CFU/ml
1	Pos.	6	2	Neg.	-	-
2	Pos.	7	6	Neg.	-	-
3	Pos.	5	>500	Pos.	5	100
4	Pos	7	1.3	Pos.	7	1.3
5	Pos.	5	22	Pos.	5	16
6	Pos.	6	46	Pos.	6	30
7	Pos.	7	5	Neg.	-	-
8	Pos.	4	270	Pos.	4	33
9	Pos.	7	5	Neg.	-	-
10	Pos.	3	300	Pos.	3	33

^aPos., positive; Neg., negative.