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Human Hemoglobin Improves Mycobacterium tuberculosis Growth in Medium

Published in Blood Weekly, September 14th, 2000

Additional evidence that human hemoglobin can enhance the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in culture was reported at the American Society for Microbiology Conference on Tuberculosis in New York, New York.

These findings are significant because improved ways to culture the organism that causes tuberculosis are always being sought due to the prevalence and highly transmissible nature of the disease.

Researchers at the Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, built upon a previous study that had discovered the filtrate from brain-heart infusion broth containing human blood lysed by Gemella...

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