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Nested-PCR results for ethanol-preserved sputum specimens broken down by quantitative smear microscopy results
| Smear microscopy group | No. of specimens with indicated nested-PCR result
|
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| rpoB positivea | rpoB negative | ||
| 1-9 AFB/100 fields | 9 (90) | 1 | 10 |
| 10-99 AFB/100 fields | 35 (87.5) | 5 | 40 |
| 1-10 AFB/field | 70 (89.7) | 8 | 78 |
| >10 AFB/field | 81 (97.6) | 2 | 83 |
| Total | 195 (92.4) | 16 | 211 |
Values in parentheses are percentages.
