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Centrifugation and decontamination procedures selectively impair recovery of important populations in Mycobacterium smegmatis

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Date
01/08/2018
Author
Kennedy, John A.
Baron, Vincent O.
Hammond, Robert J. H.
Sloan, Derek J.
Gillespie, Stephen H.
Funder
European Commission
Grant ID
Keywords
Mycobacteria
Decontamination
Dormancy
Sample processing
Culture
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
NDAS
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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Abstract
Diagnosis and treatment monitoring of patients with tuberculosis (TB) requires detection of all viable mycobacteria in clinical samples. Quantitation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in sputum is commonly performed by culture after sample decontamination to prevent overgrowth by contaminant organisms. Exponentially growing cultures have cells that predominately lack non-polar lipid bodies whereas stationary cultures have a predominance of cells with non-polar lipid bodies. This may reflect rapidly growing ‘active’ and non-replicating ‘persister’ sub-populations respectively in sputum from TB patients. We investigated the effect of decontamination on culture-based quantitation of exponential and stationary phase cultures of Mycobacterium smegmatis in an artificial sputum model. Exponentially growing populations were between 89 and 50 times more susceptible to decontamination than stationary phase cultures when quantified by most probable number and colony forming units. These findings suggest that decontamination selectively eliminates the ‘active’ population. This may impair diagnostic sensitivity, treatment monitoring, and compromise clinical trials designed to identify new antibiotic combinations with activity against all mycobacterial cell states.
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Kennedy , J A , Baron , V O , Hammond , R J H , Sloan , D J & Gillespie , S H 2018 , ' Centrifugation and decontamination procedures selectively impair recovery of important populations in Mycobacterium smegmatis ' , Tuberculosis . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2018.07.008
Publication
Tuberculosis
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2018.07.008
ISSN
1472-9792
Type
Journal article
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2018.07.008
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This work was supported by PreDiCT-TB (SMDO XEU-07).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18225

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