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. 2004 Apr;42(4):1585–1589. doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.4.1585-1589.2004

TABLE 1.

Cycling numbers (Ct values) for Light Cycler amplification with katG gene assay versus auramine-rhodamine counts

Auramine-rhodamine count^a	No. of samples	Ct
Auramine-rhodamine count^a	No. of samples	Mean	Median	Minimum	Maximum	SD	SE
1 to 9/10 fields	83	30.11	30.26	26.26	33.83	1.61	0.21
1 to 9/field	93	27.11	27.71	19.75	34.55	3.44	0.40
>9/field	22	23.91	22.62	19.79	29.64	3.51	0.85

^a

As determined by fluorescence microscopy (magnification, × 400).