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The Löwenstein-Jensen medium, more commonly known as LJ medium, is a growth medium especially used for culture of Mycobacterium species, notably Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

The medium must be incubated for a significant length of time, usually four weeks, due to the slow doubling time of M. tuberculosis (15-20 hours) compared with other bacteria.

Several new molecular technologies have emerged in recent years to secure more speedy confirmation of diagnosis:

-Polymerase chain reaction

-GeneXpert MTB/RIF

-Loop-mediated isothermal amplification

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