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2003, Cilt 17, Sayı 3, Sayfa(lar) 317-320
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THE EVALUATION OF THE SMEAR AND CULTURE RESULTS OF MYCOBACTERIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS
Nuran DELİALİOĞLU, Gönül ASLAN, Candan ÖZTÜRK, Feza OTAĞ
Mersin Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Mikrobiyoloji ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Mersin
Keywords: Acid-fast bacilli, direct microscopical examination, culture, identification

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the mycobacteriological results of smears and cultures of various clinical specimens which were submitted to the Microbiology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Mersin University, in the last three years between 24.4.1999 and 15.4.2002. The 969 (71.7%) of the all specimens were from respiratory tract. In the evaluation of 1351 specimens, 99 (7.3%) grew acid-fast bacilli (ATB) and 61 (%4.51) were smear-positive for AFB. The overall sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values and negative values were found as 53%, 99%, 86% and 96%, respectively. Although the sensitivity of direct microscopical examination is low, it is important in the early diagnosis tuberculosis since it is an easy, cheap and rapid procedure.

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