Utility of Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction in Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Table 1

Comparison of MTB detection in 192 samples between RT-qPCR and the culture method.

Improved L-J medium culture	RT-qPCR		Total
	Positive	Negative
Positive	15	5	20
Negative	9	163	172
Total	24	168	192

MTB, Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
L-J, Löwenstein–Jensen.
RT-qPCR, real-time quantitative PCR.