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Table 1 Culture comparison between NALC/NaOH and OMNIgene-SPUTUM treatment groups

From: Evaluation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis viability in OMNIgene-SPUTUM reagent upon multi-day transport at ambient temperature

  

NALC/NaOH treatment

Culture

Positive

Negative

Contaminated

OM-S treatment

Positive

36

1

5

Negative

9

240

37

Contaminated

0

0

1

  1. Number of culture positive, culture negative and culture contaminated among samples in the NALC/NaOH or OMNIgene-SPUTUM (OM-S) treatment groups