Table 3.

AFB culture positivity on LJ medium and the BACTEC method in intestinal TB

Study	Sample size,n	Source	Culture positivity, %	Method
Shahet al.[10]	50	Colonoscopy	6	LJ medium
Kirsch et al. [12]	18	Colonoscopy	11	BACTEC
Shah et al. [22]	28	Colonoscopy + surgery	48	LJ medium
			76	BACTEC
Samant et al. [23]	62	Colonoscopy	50.8	BACTEC