Susana Frazão Pinheiro (susanafrazao at mail.telepac.pt) wrote:
: Im trying to develop a protocol to make a passage from Bactec
: 12B to AccuProbe, but I dont know from which GI value read on the Bactec
: begins the positivity on the AccuProbe.
: Does anyone have an idea or has already developed a protocol?
::
There is an article in the Journ. of Clin. Micro. Dec. 1994 by Reisner,
et. al. on this topic. They used a GI of 100. I personally prefer a
GI of higher value such as 400-500 to help insure enough cells are
pelleted for the probe. The JCM issue is vol.32, no. 12., pages
2995-2998.
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