. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 17.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2006 Feb;10(2):172–177.

Table 1.

Results of culture of sputum specimens sent to reference laboratory

	n (%)	95%CI
Mycobacterium tuberculosis	101 (94.4)	88.2–97.9
Rapid growing mycobacteria^*	2 (1.9)	0.2–6.6
No growth	4 (3.7)	1.0–9.3
Total	107 (100)

M. mucogenicum (1) and M. fortuitum complex (1).