Thermo Scientific™ Culti-Loops™ Legionella bozemanae corrig. ATCC™ 33217™

The Thermo Scientific™ Culti-Loops™ Legionella bozemanae corrig. ATCC™ 33217™ strain is a ready-to-use QC organism recommended for performance testing of culture media, stains, reagents, identification kits, and bacteriological procedures. Culti-Loops provide a standardized, convenient, and reproducible way to validate laboratory workflows without the need for maintaining stock cultures.

Each loop can be dissolved in rehydration fluid (Culti-Loops Aerobic Set Rehydration Fluid, Part No. R4631000) or streaked directly onto an appropriate medium, ensuring flexibility in use for quality control applications.

Key Features

• Organism: Legionella bozemanae corrig. ATCC™ 33217™.
• Format: Culti-Loops – individually sealed, ready-to-use QC organisms.
• Pack Size: 5 loops per pack, each loop in a sealed foil pouch.
• ATCC® Licensed Derivative – traceable, validated QC strain.
• Applications: performance testing of microbiological media, stains, reagents, and diagnostic kits.
• Convenient and reproducible – eliminates the need for culture maintenance.
• Flexible use – inoculate directly or dissolve into rehydration fluid.
• Supports qualitative QC – for fastidious organisms, ensuring consistency across labs.

Applications

• Performance testing of Legionella-selective media.
• Validation of diagnostic stains and reagents.
• Evaluation of Legionella identification kits.
• QC in clinical, public health, water testing, and research laboratories.
• Teaching and training in academic microbiology labs.

Specifications

The Thermo Scientific™ Culti-Loops™ Legionella bozemanae corrig. ATCC™ 33217™ provides a reliable, traceable, and convenient QC strain for validating microbiological methods. By simplifying quality control workflows and removing the burden of culture maintenance, it supports laboratories in achieving accurate, reproducible, and compliant results for Legionella testing.