Mynox® Mycoplasma Elimination Reagent

An innovative, rapid and efficient elimination of mycoplasmas in cell cultures and virus stocks

Mycoplasma contamination of cell cultures is a serious and widespread problem. Contaminated cultures are frequently discarded or the contamination ignored since treatment with standard antibiotics is undesirable, time-consuming, and ineffective. Minerva now offers the Mycoplasma™ Elimination Kit.

Mynox® is the first biological reagent that eliminates mycoplasmas by killing them, not just inhibiting growth, and is the only anti-mycoplasma agent that can be used to clean virus stocks directly. The cytotoxicity of Mynox is extremely low.

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Applications

• Mynox® is effective against M. orale, M. hyorhinis, Acholeplasma laidlawii, M. arginini, M. fermentans, and other mycoplasma species usually encountered as contaminants in cell cultures. Mynox® works for and causes no changes to most cell lines and virus types (e.g. Vero, BHK21, GBK, ML, Hep2, 293, CRFK, H9, Molt4, MT-4, Jurkat) as well as virus stocks (e.g. SHV-1, BHV-1, HSV-1, VSV, SFV, FCV, MEV).

Benefits

• Effective with only one treatment
• Permanently destroys mycoplasma within one hour
• Not an antibiotic, thus there are no resistant strains known to date
• Temperature-stable
• Comes in a ready-to-use solution
• No additional dosing is required during treatment

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