XpressMyco PCR Detection Kit

Product Description

The XpressMyco PCR Detection Kit enables you to detect even minor mycoplasma contamination in your cell cultures.

About a quarter of all animal cell cultures are contaminated with Mycoplasma/Mollicutes. The most commonly found strains in cell cultures with a total probability of 94% are: M. fermentans (47%), M.hyorhinis (19%), M. orale (10%), M. arginini (9%), A. laidlawii (6%) and M. hominis (3%). In addition, the following strains were found with lower probability: M. bovis, M. pneumoniae, M. salivarium and M.synoviae. All of these Mollicutes strains are detected by the XpressMyco PCR Detection kit, in addition to a variety of other strains, see complete list of strains. The verification of the primer specificity was carried out by BLAST analysis.