Isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by BACTEC MICRO MGIT

Tuberculosis (TB) poses a major health social and economic burden at a global level.[1] In 2018 WHO Global TB Report it was estimated that in 2017 there were 10.4 million TB cases. WHO launched “The Stop TB Strategy” program with vision of world free of TB due to high number of mortality and morbidity. The goal of the Stop TB Strategy was to eliminate TB by achieving major progresses in research & development to reduce global burden of TB by 2015 to reduce TB prevalence to 50% relative to 1990 by 2015 and by 2050 eliminate TB as a public health problem (