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NALC-NaOH decontamination of sputum reduces the viable M. tuberculosis count measured by MBLA. P was <0.0001 between fresh sputum and treated pellet, as determined by an independent t test. Each dot represents the value of each sputum aliquot (n = 7 aliquots).
