Thermo Scientific™ MacConkey Agar w/o Crystal Violet

Description

• Description Separate rapidly growing mycobacteria on the basis of its taxonomy using Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ MacConkey Agar w/o Crystal Violet
• This agar is a modification of the original MacConkey Agar formulated in 1905 1
• In 1974 investigators observed that certain strains of mycobacteria expected to grow on MacConkey Agar failed to do so 2
• Kubica et al
• evaluated two formulations of MacConkey Agar for isolation of rapidly growing mycobacteria
• MacConkey Agar w/o Crystal Violet provided for better recovery and differentiation of rapid growers, such as Mycobacterium fortuitum-chelonae complex
• Mycobacterium fortuitum is a bacteria that can cause infections of many areas of the body including the skin, lymph nodes, and joints
• It belongs to a group of bacteria known as nontuberculous Mycobacterium, as it is different from the Mycobac