Mycobacteria (Diagnostics)
"Multicenter Evaluation of the MB-Redox Medium Compared With Radiometric BACTEC System, Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT), and Lowenstein-Jensen Medium for Detection and Recov
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 13th, 1999
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, "MB-Redox is a new manual culture system designed for the recovery of mycobacteria from clinical specimens. It consists of a liquid medium (modified Kirchner medium) containing a redox indicator, a colorless tetrazolium salt, which is reduced to colored formazan by actively growing mycobacteria. Acid fast bacilli (AFB) are easily defected in the medium as pink to purple pinhead-sized particles. We report the results of a multicenter study (involving four Italian microbiology laboratories processing 2,370 clinical specimens) aiming to evaluate the recovery rates of AFB and time...
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