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To: Cold Heart
The medium is Lowenstein-Jensen. I remembered it from grad school as the pale green media in test tubes poured and set on a slant to increase the surface area. I found a supplier for the media at link with pictures that match what I used in grad school. I'm nearly 40 years past grad school now and handling M. tuberculosis is now rated as a BSL 2 or BSL 3 activity. Our school labs were really not built to those standards in the mid-70's.
57 posted on 03/01/2015 1:30:58 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

Thanks. I got to thinking about it and did recall mention of the slant test tubes in biology 101, 50 years ago. I took a microbiology course about 4 years ago and we used only the petri dishes & standard agar.

I feel like making ice cream now.


59 posted on 03/01/2015 4:01:41 PM PST by Cold Heart
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