Open AccessBacteriological studies in osteoarticular tuberculosis
Author(s) -
G.G. Golka,
Д. Д. Битчук,
V.V. Burlaka,
A. A. Oleynik,
V.V. Vesnin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
lìkarsʹka sprava/lìkarsʹka sprava
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2706-8803
pISSN - 1019-5297
DOI - 10.31640/jvd.1-2.2018(15
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , surgery , pathology
The article presents the results of bacteriological studies in two groups of patients. The main group included 60 patients with OAT confirmed by objective data and the control group of 25 patients with unconfirmed diagnosis. Sampling, preparation of samples and the study itself was carried out in a bacteriological laboratory according to conventional standards. Bacteriological confirmation of the diagnosis was obtained in 22 (36.7 %) Group I patients, of whom in 14 (23.3 %) patients MBT was isolated only by culture, in the rest – only by bacterioscopy and in 4 (6.7 %) cases positive results were obtained by two methods. Assessment of the results of bacteriological tests in the control group showed that samples (joints punctate) of these patients were not found to contain MBT. Evaluation of statistical indices of bacteriological studies revealed that though specificity of these studies in patients with OAT comprised 100 %, it is not particularly sensitive (36.7 %), and the total value of the method was 55.3 %. Thus, conducted bacteriological studies confirm that paucibacillary of all of the samples is typical for OAT.