Open AccessPerformance of bioMérieux Lowenstein–Jensen slopes in plastic tube packaging, compared to existing phenotypic methods, for efficient recovery of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Author(s) -
Remya Nambiar,
Nabila Bereksi,
Richard Gonzalez,
Anthony de Cozar,
Marissa Loubet,
Anjali Shetty,
Alex van Belkum,
Camilla Rodrigues
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of medical microbiology/journal of medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1473-5644
pISSN - 0022-2615
DOI - 10.1099/jmm.0.000930
Subject(s) - breakage , biosafety , pulmonary tuberculosis , inoculation , mycobacterium tuberculosis , tuberculosis , microbiology and biotechnology , materials science , medicine , biology , composite material , horticulture , pathology
Lowenstein-Jensen (LJ) medium used for cultivating Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is marketed in glass packaging. Breakage of glass slope is a major biosafety risk, especially during processing and storage, which gets magnified in large laboratories. We evaluated the performance of new bioMérieux (bMx) LJ slopes in plastic packaging, compared to bMx glass LJ medium and Becton Dickinson Mycobacterial Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT), for MTB recovery.