Diagnostic usefulness of bone marrow aspiration material for the amplification of IS6110 insertion element in extra-pulmonary tuberculosis: comparison of two PCR techniques
OBJECTIVE: Two different polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based methods were compared to investigate the validity of bone marrow aspiration material as an easily accessible alternative sample for molecular analysis in EPTB.
DESIGN: We amplified the same sequence of IS6110 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in 19 confirmed cases of EPTB using two different nested PCR techniques: one in-house ‘classic’ PCR and another based on LightCycler technology.
RESULTS: Both methods demonstrated the same reliability when performed in samples of infected tissue. However, the LightCycler protocol was superior to the in-house system when applied in bone marrow aspiration material, revealing positivity in 18/19 compared to 13/19 samples of ‘classic’ PCR.
CONCLUSION: The application of an optimised LightCycler nested amplification protocol in bone marrow aspirates may promote diagnostic accuracy in difficult and/or urgent cases of EPTB.
Keywords: LightCycler; PCR; bone marrow; extra-pulmonary tuberculosis
Document Type: Regular Paper
Affiliations: 1: First Division of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece 2: Laboratory of Microbiology, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece 3: Division of Hematology, ‘Papageorgiou’ General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece 4: Immunology Center, Foundation for Biomedical Research for the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
Publication date: 01 April 2005
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