Culture 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 own media or purchase prepared media for routine diagnostics […]
This post was most recently updated on July 23rd, 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 […]
Chromogenic 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 by the microorganism to give colored colonies that is […]
This post was most recently updated on April 26th, 2018Cary-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 […]
Alkaline 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 other broth media have been described for enrichment of […]
This post was most recently updated on November 5th, 2016Pseudosel Agar or Cetrimide Agar is used for the selective isolation and presumptive identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa . The medium was first developed by Lowburry and […]
This post was most recently updated on May 17th, 2017CLED (cysteine-, lactose-, and electrolyte-deficient) agar is a differential culture medium for use in isolating and enumerating bacteria in urine from the suspected cases of Urinary […]
This post was most recently updated on September 10th, 2016Thiosulfate Citrate bile salts sucrose (TCBS) agar is a selective as well as differential culture medium used for selective isolation of Vibrio spp from a variety […]
This post was most recently updated on June 21st, 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 June 9th, 2016Buffered Charcoal Yeast Extract Agar (BCYE) was developed by Feeley et al and then further modified by Edelstein for selective cultivation of Legionella species. BCYE Agar is […]
This post was most recently updated on October 21st, 2016Eosin Methylene Blue Agar is a both selective and differential culture medium. It is selective culture medium for gram-negative bacteria (selects against gram positive bacteria) and […]
This post was most recently updated on August 8th, 2016In this blog post, I have listed the commonly used culture media in Bacteriology laboratory and their primary purpose. There are still lots of culture media […]
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