Thermo Scientific™ Lowenstein-Jensen Medium (LJ)

Description

• Cultivate and isolate Mycobacterium spp
• using Thermo Scientific™ Lowenstein-Jensen Medium (LJ)
• Remove the need for pipetting, dispensing or autoclaving with convenient, pre-filled and ready-to-use tubes and bottles of Lowenstein-Jensen Medium, a glycerated egg-potato medium which provides fatty acids and protein required for metabolsm of mycobacteria
• Malachite green is added to inhibit other mycobacteria and as a pH indicator
• Thermo Scientific Lowenstein-Jensen Medium (LJ) agar slants are available in a variety of fill volumes and pack sizes
• Mycobacteria most commonly involve infections of the pulmonary system, but some species infect the lymphatic system and skin
• Mycobacteria are gram-positive, nonmotile, acid-fast pleomorphic rods
• They vary in colony morphology, pigmentation, and growth rates
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the most important pathogenic Mycobacterium , is slow-growing and causes highly contageous, airborne respiratory disease
• Tuberculosis is responsible for an estimated 2 million deaths per year worldwide
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