A comparision of blood and egg based media for the rapid isolation and drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

摘要

ABSTRACT This study determine the comparison of growth pattern and time required for isolation and drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on blood agar (BA) and Lowenstein-Jensen (LJ) media.Mycobacterium tuberculosis was isolated from 250 sputum. The sputum samples were proceed for Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Ziehl-Neelsen method, culture on LJ and BA media followed by biochemical tests. Drug susceptibility test was performed on LJ and BA against 10 Mycobacterium tuberculos.