Introduction First-Line Drug Susceptibility Testing (FL-DST or sometimes referred to in context as SL-DST when covering all first-line agents: Rifampicin,…
Introduction The system consists of an incubator-reader that can hold up to 960 culture tubes (7 ml size), allowing it to process…
Visual Observation Medium: The tubes appear to be MGIT (Mycobacteriological Growth Indicator Tubes), which contain a liquid broth (Middlebrook 7H9)…
Introduction Fig. Serpentine cord or Cord factor or Trehalose dimycolate, TDM of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in Ziehl-Neelsen Staining of…