What means a sporadic positive sputum culture with scanty colonies of mycobacterium tuberculosis?
Sporadic positive cultures, with only a few colonies, in persons with fibrotic lesions, even with stable x-ray lesions may indicate “an isolated relapse of doubtful clinical significance” (7); but in agreement with (7), our findings show that the frequency of consecutive break-down, earlier or later, is so high that either careful follow-up or sufficient preventive therapy, with consideration to drug sensitivity of the bacilli, is mandatory.
