NG-TEST® Blood Culture PREP
NG-TEST® Blood Culture PREP is a non-automated kit for processing positive blood cultures. The reagents in this kit are designed to remove haemoglobin from the sample and concentrate Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa into a pellet ready for use.
NG-TEST® Blood Culture PREP is intended for research use only and must not be used in a diagnostic procedure.
This kit contains sufficient material for 20 procedures.
The kit consists of two buffers: a lysis buffer that lyses the red blood cells, and a washing buffer that washes the recovered pellet.
The positive blood culture is mixed with the lysis buffer. After centrifugation, the supernatant is removed and the washing buffer is added. After a second centrifugation, the supernatant is removed again and the bacterial pellet is ready for use
