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Nucleic acid amplification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA from archival fine needle aspiration smear scrapings vs. fresh fine needle aspirates of tuberculous lymphadenitis.

AbstractOBJECTIVE:
To assess the efficacy of the nucleic acid amplification (NAA) technique for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) complex from archival fine needle aspirate (FNA) smear scrapings of confirmed cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) for a retrospective diagnosis of EPTB as compared to NAA from fresh FNA material from the same cases.
STUDY DESIGN:
Smear scrapings from 51 cases; 33 cases of tuberculous lymphadenitis (from patients who had undergone NAA 1 year before for MTB from fresh FNA material); 13 negative controls from nontuberculous, archival FNA smears; and 5 known acid-fast bacilli (AFB)-positive sputum smears, were subjected to NAA using the IS6110 primer sequence of M tuberculosis. Ziehl-Neelsen staining was done in all the smears.
RESULTS:
Of the 33 cases of tuberculous lymphadenitis, 15 (45.4%) were AFB positive and 18 (64.5%) AFB negative. MTB NAA was positive in 73.3% (11 of 15 AFB-positive cases) in the freshly aspirated material and was observed in 60% (9 of 15 AFB-positive cases) when done on DNA extracted from the archival smear scrapings of the same cases. Similarly, in the 18 AFB-negative cases, MTB NAA positivity was 72.2% (13 of 18) on fresh material and 44.4% (8 of 18) on archival smear scrapings from the same AFB-negative cases. Overall NAA positivity was 51.5% for archival smear scrapings as compared to 71% for fresh FNA of the same cases.
CONCLUSION:
Low NAA sensitivity of MTB DNA in archival material of known tuberculous cases limits the routine use of NAA based retrospective molecular diagnosis of MTB complex.
AuthorsMadhu Mati Goel, Puja Budhwar, Megha Goel, Vandana Tiwari, Amita Jain
JournalActa cytologica (Acta Cytol) 2006 Jul-Aug Vol. 50 Issue 4 Pg. 393-7 ISSN: 0001-5547 [Print] Switzerland
PMID16901001 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • DNA, Bacterial
Topics
  • Biopsy, Fine-Needle
  • DNA, Bacterial (analysis, genetics)
  • Humans
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis (genetics, isolation & purification)
  • Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques
  • Tuberculosis, Lymph Node (microbiology, pathology)

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