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Inoculation of Growth Control Tube/Drug Containing Tubes
Learning ObjectivesImportance of setting up controls, tube inoculation with/without drugs
It is extremely important to perform quality control of drug susceptibility testing
It is not necessary to include a resistant strain, as most of the resistant strains against a drug which are available from ATCC and other culture collections are highly resistant and do not give any added benefit in quality control. The test procedure for QC organisms is the same as described above for clinical isolates. The inoculum should be from a freshly grown culture in the
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Mycobacteriology Laboratory Manual
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Which QC Strain is used in MGIT DST? | M. tuberculosis H37Rv | M.kansasii | M.fortuitum | M.avium | Answer 1 |
M. tuberculosis H37Rv (ATCC [American Type Culture Collection] number 27294) as a QC strain which is susceptible to all anti-tuberculosis drugs. |
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