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Same day sputum smear microscopy for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis:
Ziehl-Neelsen versus fluorescent staining
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Chandra TJ
; Selvaraj R
; Sharma YV
J Family Med Prim Care
2015[Oct]; 4
(4
): 525-8
PMID26985410
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BACKGROUND: Sputum smear microscopy is the main tool for the diagnosis of
pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), especially in low- and middle-income countries
(LMICs). Limited sensitivity of smear microscopy and patient dropouts (PDs) are
the important obstacles of national TB control programs. OBJECTIVES: (1) To
assess the diagnostic utility of the same day (SS2) approach (2) To compare the
smear results of the spot morning (SM) and the SS2 approaches. MATERIALS AND
METHODS: The study was conducted in the Department of Microbiology, GSL Medical
College, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India from January 2011 to February 2015.
Three sputum samples were collected [spot (S), second spot (S2) 1 h after S, and
morning sample (M)] from the volunteers. The sputum smears were stained by
Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN), modified ZN (MZN), and fluorescent staining (FS) techniques
and the results were pooled and compared under SM and SS2 approaches. RESULTS: Of
the 3,186 study participants, sputum smear positivity (SSP) for SM approach was
9.6% and 10.8% and for SS2 approach, it was 9.4% and 10.6%, respectively, with ZN
and FS and the results were statistically insignificant (Mann-Whitney U test, P >
0.05). CONCLUSION: Technically SSP was similar for both the approaches and no
improvement was observed with the SS2 approach. Hence, there is an urgent need to
improve SSP.