Problem
i. How can M. tuberculosis be identified to the species level?
ii. List the organisms present in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
iii. Sometimes in processing for mycobacterial culture, an aerosol is created and one specimen splashes into another tube and contaminates it. If the physician states that the patient does not appear to have tuberculosis, how can the laboratory confirm that the positive culture does not represent contamination?