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Biosafety requirements

• Understand the purpose of inoculating Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) agar in microbiological culture procedures.
• Learn the techniques to check for contamination in MGIT broth.
• Learn the techniques to check the sterility of reagents/ processed specimens.

Advantages and disadvantages of NALC – NaOH Method

Learn about the three types of maintenance needs and specific tasks under each to ensure the proper functioning and reliability of the MGIT 960 instrument.

Understand the components/parts and functionality of the MGIT 960 instrument used in tuberculosis (TB) culture.

• Understand the fundamental principles underlying the MGIT 960 instrument for tuberculosis (TB) culture.
• Learn about the system's automated culture method, which relies on fluorescence detection.

• Understand the key features of the MGIT 960 system as an instrument for tuberculosis (TB) culture.
• Recognize the advantages of the MGIT 960 system.

Enumerate the specific precautions to be taken for sample processing and reagent preparation in TB culture labs.

Culturing of mycobacteria.

Culturing of mycobacteria.