Efficiency of Medium B-2 for the Isolation of Tubercle Bacteria from Menstrual Blood and from Endometrium in Female Genital Tuberculosis

Abstract

The liquid medium B-2 proved to be significantly more sensitive for the isolation of tubercle bacteria from menstrual blood and endometrium than the standard U1T egg medium. In female genital tuberculosis the number of tubercle bacteria in bacteriologically examined material is usually very low. The purpose of this article is to show that nevertheless by means of a sensitive medium results can be improved for cultures of menstrual blood and endometrium.

Study of Efficiency of some Modifications of Medium B-2 for the Primary Cultivation of Tubercle Bacteria

“…For this reason, in our later studies only media containing penicillin (but no malachite green) were used [2,3]. A medium containing malachite green only has not yet been compared with a medium containing penicillin only.…”

“…The methods used for treating the specimens before inoculation into the media as well as other methods used in cultivation and identification of myco bacteria were described in our previous papers [1,2,3]. …”