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• Understand the procedural biosafety measures essential for Line Probe Assay (LPA) laboratories.

   

• Understand technical competencies required for LPA Lab Personnel to ensure good laboratory practices.
• Understand the Do’s and Don’t of good laboratory practices.

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.