Sabouraud Agar or Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA) is a selective medium primarily used for the isolation of dermatophytes. Other fungi, yeasts, and filamentous bacteria such as Nocardia can also grow...
Category: Culture Media
Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA): Principle, Composition, Colony Characteristics
Potato dextrose agar (PDA) is a general-purpose basal medium for identifying, cultivating and enumerating yeast and molds in foods and dairy products. It may also be used to cultivate yeasts and...
Baird-Parker Agar was developed by Baird Parker in 1962 and is a modification of the Tellurite-glycine formulation of Zebovitz et al. It is a moderately selective medium for the isolation and...
Cetrimide agar also known as pseudosel agar is used for the selective isolation and presumptive identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The medium was first developed by Lowburry. It is a...
Xylose lysine deoxycholate (XLD) agar is a selective and differential medium for the isolation, cultivation, and differentiation of gram-negative enteric microorganisms. This media primarily isolates...
Lactose fermenting (yellow colonies) and Lactose Non-fermenting colonies in CLED CLED (cysteine-, lactose-, and electrolyte-deficient) agar is a differential culture medium primarily used to isolate...