Table 2 Culture results of sputum cultured on both LJ and BACTEC-MGIT-960 system (only patients with both culture results are included)
| Â | LJ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bactec | Positive | Negative | Contaminated | NTM |
Positive | 389 | 24 | 14 | 0 |
Negative | 9 | 49 | 1 | 0 |
Contaminated | 11 | 17 | 7 | 1 |
NTM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |