Table 5.
Culture | |||
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Positive | Negative | ||
GTCMd | Positive | 33 | 5 b |
Negative | 4 a | 22 | |
Culture | |||
Positive | Negative | ||
VAM | Positive | 27 | 1 d |
Negative | 10 c | 26 |
a 1 × M. intracellulare and 1 × M. tuberculosis complex grown from culture were identified as M. spec. by GTCMd, 2 × M. abscessus subsp. abscessus were identified as M. chelonae by GTCMd. b 5 culture-negative samples were identified as 2 × M. xenopi, 2 × M. kansasii and 1 × banding pattern 4, 5, 10 with no identification of a single NTM species by GTCMd. c 1 × M. intracellulare, 1 × M. abscessus subsp. abscessus, 1 × M. kansasii grown from specimens were identified as M. spec., 7 isolates from seven culture-positive specimens were unidentified (2 × M. tuberculosis, 2 × M. chimaera, 1 × M. abscessus subsp. abscessus, 1 × M. abscessus subsp. massiliense, 1 × M. kansasii). d 1 × M. simiae (borderline) from 1 culture-negative specimen.