Comparative evaluation of three immunochromatographic identification tests for culture confirmation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

Table 3 Results of PCR detection and Capilia TB-Neo of MTC with clinical isolates

Species interpretation (Number of isolates)	Banding pattern							Capilia TB-Neo	%
	cfp32	RD9	RD12	RD4	RD7	MiD3	RD1
M. tuberculosis (490)	+	+	+	NT	NT	NT	NT	+	98.0
M. tuberculosis (2)	+	+	+	NT	NT	NT	NT	-	0.4
"M. canettii" (5)^a	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	1.0
M. bovis BCG Tokyo (2)^b	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	0.4
M. bovis BCG Connaught (1)^c	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	0.2

^aConfirmed to be M. tuberculosis by hsp65 sequencing and morphology, ^bConfirmed by contracted RD16, ^cConfirmed by absence of RD2 and RD15, and contracted SenX3-RegX3, NT: Not tested.

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