were found to be contaminated by using the realtime
imaging protocol (P1.00). The real-time imaging protocol
incorporated chlorhexidine for the initial decontamination of
clinical specimens, due to previous observations that chlorhexidine
can be used as a decontaminant for the recovery of nontuberculous
mycobacteria (14) as well as M. tuberculosis (Asmar and
Drancourt, submitted)