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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2011, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (9): 585-587.

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Efficiency of fluorescence microscopy with light emitting diodes in detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis

CHEN Yan-mei, QIAN Ming, JIANG Yong, CHEN Tao, LI Hai-cheng, ZHONG Qiu   

  1. Reference Laboratory Anti-tuberculosis Institute of Guangdong Province
  • Received:2011-07-04 Online:2011-09-10 Published:2012-01-29
  • Contact: ZHONG Qiu E-mail:zhouqiu@vip.163.com

Abstract: Objective To evaluate the efficiency of fluorescence microscopy with  light emitting diodes (LED-FM) in screening Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Methods Sputum samples of 232 suspected patients were collected and there were totally 696 samples including 3 samples from each patient. All samples were detected by Ziehl-Neelsen (Z-N) stain microscopy and LED-FM respectively. Results The positive rates of LED-FM and Z-N were 37.9%(88/232)and 26.7%(62/232) with significant difference (χ2=6.66, P<0.01). Conclusion LED-FM in detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis is superior to the conventional method.

Key words: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Microscopy,fluorescence, Staining and labeling