TABLE II. Results of identification and mpt64 real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the 1,520 mycobacterial isolates analysed.
| Real-time PCR | Presumptive or phenotypic and PRA-hsp65 identification | Total | |||||
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| MTC | MTC + NTM | MTC + CO | NTM | CO | NG/NA | ||
| Positive | 1,332 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 1,384 |
| Negative | 4 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 17 | 5 | 122 |
| Inconclusive | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
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| Total | 1,337 | 13 | 2 | 106 | 43 | 19 | 1,520 |
CO: contamination; MTC: Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; NG/NA: no growth and no amplification on PRA-hsp65 identification; NTM: non-tuberculous mycobacteria.