This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019Culture media play a pivotal role in any microbiology laboratory for isolation, identification and sensitivity testing of different pathogens. Most of the laboratories usually prepare their […]
This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) broth is a general-purpose liquid medium used for the cultivation and maintenance of a wide variety of fastidious and non-fastidious microorganisms, including […]
This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019Kligler’s Iron Agar (KIA) is used for the detection of carbohydrate fermentation. Reactions of KIA helps to include/exclude particular bacterial isolate in the family Enterobacteriaceae. If […]
This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019Staib medium also known as bird seed agar is a selective and differential medium for isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from clinical specimens and differentiation of it […]
This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019Chromogenic Agar Media are culture medium used to isolate, identify, and differentiate specific microorganism from a heterogeneous population. The medium contains chromogenic substrate which is utilized […]
This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019Cary-Blair transport medium can be used to transport of clinical specimens suspected to contain enteric pathogens, including Shigella, Salmonella, Vibrio cholerae, and Escherichia coli O157:H7. Since […]
This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019Alkaline peptone water (APW) is recommended as an enrichment broth for isolating Vibrio cholerae from clinical samples and non clinical samples (suspected food & water samples). A number of […]
This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019Nutrient agar is used as a general purpose medium for the growth of a wide variety of non-fastidious microorganisms. It consists of peptone, beef extract and agar. This relatively […]
This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019The NNN (Novy-MCNeal-Nicolle), medium is a common and world known medium for isolation of the agent of the genus Leishmania, that causes Leishmaniasis (cutaneous, mucocutaneous or visceral) . Culture […]
This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019New York City (NYC) Medium is primarily designed for isolation of pathogenic Neisseria. It also supports the growth of genital mycoplasmas (Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum). New […]
This post was most recently updated on September 30th, 2019Chocolate Agar (CAP) is the lysed blood agar. The name is itself derived from the fact that red blood cell (RBC) lysis gives the medium a […]
This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2019Eosin Methylene Blue (EMB) agar is a both selective and differential culture medium. It is selective culture medium for Gram-negative bacteria (selects against Gram positive bacteria) […]
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