Routine Culture-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rescue and Shell-Vial Assay, France.

ABSTRACT: We used shell-vial assay with a medium that buffered rifampin to isolate routine culture-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria from cerebrospinal fluid and rifampin-containing intervertebral disc and vertebral corpus of a patient in treatment for Pott's disease and disseminated tuberculosis. Whole-genome sequencing confirmed M. tuberculosis lineage 4 (Euro-American) strain.

SUBMITTER: Fellag M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6810202 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature