%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Bonnave, P. E.
%A Raoult, Didier
%A Drancourt, M.
%T Gastric aspiration is not necessary for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis
%D 2013
%L PAR00010325
%G ENG
%J European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
%@ 0934-9723
%M ISI:000316019500015
%N 4
%P 569-571
%R 10.1007/s10096-012-1776-6
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/PAR00010325
%V 32
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Despite recommendations, gastric aspirate collected by invasive nasogastric aspiration is still routinely used for the direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in our institution. Reviewing 82 patients with culture-proven respiratory tuberculosis over a 28-month period, we observed no patient diagnosed solely by gastric aspirate analysis. Moreover, the diagnosis yield of gastric aspirate (60 %) did not significantly differ from that of stool specimen (64 %). These data confirm that gastric aspirate is no longer useful for the diagnosis of respiratory tuberculosis contrary to stool specimen.
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