Table 2.
Comparative yields of M. tuberculosis obtained with various combinations of the BacT/Alert MB system, the manual Myco/F Lytic procedure, and the Isolator 10 system
| Bottle pair (bottle 1, bottle 2) | No. of bottles in which MTB was detected |
P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Both bottles | Bottle 1 only | Bottle 2 only | ||
| Adequately filled bottles | ||||
| BacT/Alert MB, Myco/F Lytic | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0.4497 |
| BacT/Alert MB, Isolator 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0.4795 |
| Myco/F Lytic, Isolator 10 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0.0736 |
| All bottles | ||||
| BacT/Alert MB, Myco/F Lytic | 12 | 2 | 8 | 0.1138 |
| BacT/Alert MB, Isolator 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1.0000 |
| Myco/F Lytic, Isolator 10 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0.0233 |