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Selenite broth: Composition, Preparation Uses

Selenite broth is used as an enrichment medium for the isolation of Salmonella and Shigella from stool, urine, water and food products. It is the most widely used enrichment medium to isolate...

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Bird Seed Agar: Composition, Uses

Bird Seed Agar, also known as Staib medium, is a selective and differential medium for isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from clinical specimens and differentiation of it from other Cryptococcus...

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Bismuth Sulfite Agar: Composition, Uses, Colony Morphology

Bismuth sulfite agar (BS) is a selective as well as a differential medium for isolation and presumptive identification of Salmonella spp, especially Salmonella Typhi. Salmonella spp are the...

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Chromogenic Culture Media: Principle, Composition, Results

Chromogenic culture media are used to isolate, identify, and differentiate specific microorganisms from a heterogeneous population. The medium contains chromogenic substrate which is utilized by...

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link to Tryptic Soy Agar (TSA): Composition, Preparation, Uses

Tryptic Soy Agar (TSA): Composition, Preparation, Uses

Tryptic soy agar is a routine laboratory media that supports the growth of a wide variety of non fastidious microorganisms without giving any particular organism a growth advantage. It is the most...

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Robertson’s Cooked Meat (RCM) Medium

Robertson’s Cooked Meat (RCM) medium is used to cultivate aerobic, microaerophilic, and anaerobic microorganisms, especially Clostridium species.  It is also known as cooked meat broth (CMB)...

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