The use of Kudoh method for culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium africanum in The Gambia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mycobacterium tuberculosis culturing remains the gold standard for laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis remains a great public health problem in developing countries like The Gambia, as most of the methods currently used for bacterial isolation are either time-consuming or costly.

Objective

To evaluate the Kudoh swab method in a West African setting in Gambia, with a particular focus on the method's performance when culturing Mycobacterium africanum West Africa 2 (MAF2) isolates.

Method

75 sputum samples were collected in the Greater Banjul Area and decontaminated in parallel with both the standard N-acetyl-L-Cysteine-NaOH (NALC-NaOH) and the Kudoh swab method in the TB diagnostics laboratory in the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia bet

SUBMITTER: Jobarteh T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10971581 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature