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Why mycobacteria tuberculosis cannot be cultured on blood agar?

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TB culture: Tb is difficult to culture and culture results often take months. Lowenstin-jensen and middlebrook agars are the culture medias used to grow tb.

Dr Fowler and another doctor agreed

Answered 11/15/2013

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