TABLE 2.
Examined tissue samples from patients with neck lymphadenitis
| Patient | Country | Age (yr)/sex | Specimen | Test result |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFBa | Culture | PCR, IS6110 | qPCR |
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| IS901 | IS1245 | |||||||
| 1 | Czech Republic | 7/male | Extirpated tissue with caseous lesions | − | + | − | − | +b |
| 2 | Slovakia | 2/female | Extirpated tissue with caseous lesion, periphery | − | − | − | − | − |
| Tissue without caseous lesions | − | − | − | − | − | |||
| Extirpated tissue with caseous lesion, caseated center of 1 cm in diam | − | − | − | − | +c | |||
a
AFB, acid-fast bacilli visible after Ziehl-Neelsen staining.
b
Identification was carried out with isolated DNA from the mycobacterial isolate.
c
Quantification was not possible.