MGIT 960 Instrument: Operation

Step 1

To load the tubes, open the desired drawer. 

Once the drawer is open, select the desired workflow on the LCD display, in this case, Tube Entry.

Step 2

Scan pre-affixed barcode on tube

Step 3

Load where indicated by solid green LED light in drawer, and close the drawer.

Now the MGIT 960 system will do all the work.

Step 4

Wait until the MGIT 960 system either flags the tube as positive or negative. After opening the drawer, remove the positives and completed negatives as they occur (icons appear on each drawer) eg press positive that appears on the screen to pull out positive tube from the slot.