Evaluation of Fluorotype MTB for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA in clinical specimens from a low-incidence country

Table 1 Comparison of FT MTB and culture results

	No. of specimens with FT MTB results
Culture results^a	Pos	Neg	Invalid	Total
MTBC	45	7	0	52
Smear positive	42	0	0	42
Smear negative	3	7	0	10
No MTBC	17	902	7	926
Culture negative	17	884	7	908
Growth of NTM	0	18	0	18
Total	62	909	7	978

^aMTBC, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; NTM, non-tuberculous mycobacteria; pos, positive; neg, negative.

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