AFB Smear
Detection by LJ Medium
Detection by Micro MGIT System
Number
TTD (Days)
Range
(Days)
Number
TTD
(Days)
Range
(Days)
Positive (N=2)
2
36
15-40
2
8
7-10
Negative (N=198)
12
40
32-42
20
18
15-44
AFB - Acid fast bacilli
LJ- Lowenstein Jensen media
Table 2:
The Time to Detection (TTD) of Mycobacteria for smear positive and smear negative isolates in BACTEC MGIT and LJ Medium.
