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Effect of Cetylpyridinium Chloride (CPC) on Colony Formation of Common Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

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dc.contributor Biological Sciences
dc.creator Williams, Myra D.
dc.creator Falkinham, Joseph O. III
dc.date 2018-10-31T17:00:05Z
dc.date 2018-10-31T17:00:05Z
dc.date 2018-10-05
dc.date 2018-10-31T15:27:05Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:51:46Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:51:46Z
dc.identifier Williams, M.D.; Falkinham, J.O., III. Effect of Cetylpyridinium Chloride (CPC) on Colony Formation of Common Nontuberculous Mycobacteria. Pathogens 2018, 7, 79.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85608
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens7040079
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281546
dc.description Cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) is widely used to decontaminate water samples for the cultivation of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). The rationale for using CPC is that it kills more non mycobacteria than NTM and thereby prevents the outgrowth and detection of mycobacterial colonies on solid media. The few CPC-susceptibility measurements that have been published, suggest that CPC-decontamination does kill significant numbers of NTM. We confirm that observation here and further demonstrate that CPC-susceptibility varied significantly by one log between representative NTM species and between strains of the same species. CPC-susceptibility was the same for cells collected from cultures or water-acclimated (<i>P</i> = 0.6485, <i>T</i>-test) and CPC-susceptibility was relatively similar over the range of commonly employed CPC dosages. We conclude that use of CPC as decontaminating agent may lead to failure to recover an NTM isolate and considerable underestimates of NTM numbers.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject nontuberculous mycobacteria
dc.subject cetylpyridinium chloride
dc.subject decontamination
dc.title Effect of Cetylpyridinium Chloride (CPC) on Colony Formation of Common Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
dc.title Pathogens
dc.type Article - Refereed
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