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Trypticase™ Soy Agar II with 5% Horse Blood 20. BD Trypticase™ Soy Agar with 5% Horse Blood (TSA II) is a nutritious general purpose medium for the isolation andcultivation of nonfastidious and fastidious microorganisms from a variety of clinical and non-clinical materials and thedetection of hemolytic reactions.

Campylobacter Agar with 5 Antimicrobics and 10% Sheep Blood 20. Campylobacter Agar with 5 Antimicrobics and 10% Sheep Blood (Campy-BAP) is a selective medium for the primary isolation of Campylobacter jejuni and other cephalothin resistant Campylobacter species from stool specimens.

CLED (Cystine Lactose-Electrolyte-Deficient) Agar 20. CLED Agar (Cystine-Lactose-Electrolyte-Deficient Agar) is a differential culture medium for use in isolating and enumerating bacteria in urine. It supports the growth of urinary pathogens and contaminants but prevents undue swarming of Proteusspecies due to its lack of electrolytes.

Columbia Agar with 5% Sheep Blood 20. This is a highly nutritious general purpose medium for the isolation and cultivation of nonfastidious and fastidious microorganisms from a variety of clinical and non-clinical materials. It derives its superior growth-supporting properties from thecombination of two peptones and yeast extract as a supplier of the B complex vitamins.

Columbia CNA Agar with 5% Sheep Blood 20. This is a selective and differential medium used for the isolation of Gram-positive microorganisms from clinical and non-clinical materials.

Endo Agar 20. Endo Agar is a slightly selective and differential medium for the isolation, cultivation, and differentiation of Enterobacteriaceae and several other Gram-negative rods from both clinical and non-clinical specimens.

MacConkey II Agar 20. MacConkey II Agar is a selective and differential medium for the isolation and differentiation of Enterobacteriaceae and a variety of other Gram-negative rods from clinical and non-clinical specimens.

Mannitol Salt Agar 20. Mannitol Salt Agar is a selective and differential medium for the isolation and enumeration of staphylococci from clinical and non-clinical specimens and their differentiation according to mannitol fermentation.

Mueller Hinton II Agar with 5% Sheep Blood 20. BD Mueller Hinton Agar with 5% Sheep Blood, available in several plate formats and package sizes, is recommended for disc diffusion susceptibility testing of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other streptococci as standardized by CLSI (formerlythe National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards NCCLS).

Mueller Hinton II Agar 20. Mueller Hinton II Agar, available in several plate formats and package sizes, is used in the standardized disc diffusion procedure for determining the susceptibility of rapidly growing aerobic organisms to antimicrobial agents.

Sabouraud Glucose Agar 20. Sabouraud Dextrose Agar is used for isolation and cultivation of fungi from clinical and non-clinical material.

Sabouraud Glucose Agar with Gentamycin and Chloramphenicol 20. Sabouraud Glucose Agar with Gentamycin and Chloramphenicol is a selective medium for the isolation of fungi from clinical and non-clinical material.

Trypticase™ Soy Agar 20. General purpose media which support the growth of nonfastidious as well as moderately fastidious microorganisms. The nutritional composition of Trypticase Soy Agar has made it a popular medium for many years. It is the medium specifiedas Soybean-Casein Digest Agar Medium in the United States Pharmacopeia, European Pharmacopeia, and Japanese Pharmacopeiafor the total aerobic microbial count portion of the microbial limit testing procedures. The medium is used for a multitude ofpurposes including maintenance of stock cultures, plate counting, isolation of microorganisms from a variety of specimen types and as a base for media containing blood. It is included in the compendia of methods for the examination of water, wastewater and foods.

Trypticase™ Soy Agar II with 5% Sheep Blood 20. BD Trypticase™ Soy Agar with 5% Sheep Blood (TSA II) is a nutritious general purpose medium for the isolation and cultivation of nonfastidious and fastidious microorganisms from a variety of clinical and non-clinical materials and thedetection of hemolytic reactions.

Xylose Lysine Desoxycholate (XLD) Agar 20. Xylose Lysine Desoxycholate Agar is a moderately selective and differential medium for the isolation and differentiation of Gram-negative enteric pathogens from both clinical and non-clinical specimens (Salmonella and Shigella). It is especiallysuitable for the isolation of Shigella species.

GC-Chocolate Agar 20. Chocolate Agar (GCII Agar with BD IsoVitaleX™) is a non-selective medium for the isolation and cultivation of fastidious microorganisms, especially Neisseria and Haemophilus species, from a variety of clinical specimens.

CLED (Cystine Lactose-Electrolyte-Deficient) Agar 120. CLED Agar (Cystine-Lactose-Electrolyte-Deficient Agar) is a differential culture medium for use in isolating and enumerating bacteria in urine. It supports the growth of urinary pathogens and contaminants but prevents undue swarming of Proteusspecies due to its lack of electrolytes.

Columbia Agar with 5% Sheep Blood 120. This is a highly nutritious general purpose medium for the isolation and cultivation of nonfastidious and fastidious microorganisms from a variety of clinical and non-clinical materials. It derives its superior growth-supporting properties from thecombination of two peptones and yeast extract as a supplier of the B complex vitamins.

Endo Agar 120. Endo Agar is a slightly selective and differential medium for the isolation, cultivation, and differentiation of Enterobacteriaceae and several other Gram-negative rods from both clinical and non-clinical specimens.

Mueller Hinton II Agar 120. Mueller Hinton II Agar, available in several plate formats and package sizes, is used in the standardized disc diffusion procedure for determining the susceptibility of rapidly growing aerobic organisms to antimicrobial agents.

Sabouraud Glucose Agar 120. Sabouraud Dextrose Agar is used for isolation and cultivation of fungi from clinical and non-clinical material.

Trypticase™ Soy Agar 120. General purpose media which support the growth of nonfastidious as well as moderately fastidious microorganisms. The nutritional composition of Trypticase Soy Agar has made it a popular medium for many years. It is the medium specifiedas Soybean-Casein Digest Agar Medium in the United States Pharmacopeia, European Pharmacopeia, and Japanese Pharmacopeiafor the total aerobic microbial count portion of the microbial limit testing procedures. The medium is used for a multitude ofpurposes including maintenance of stock cultures, plate counting, isolation of microorganisms from a variety of specimen types and as a base for media containing blood. It is included in the compendia of methods for the examination of water, wastewater and foods.

Trypticase™ Soy Agar II with 5% Sheep Blood 120. BD Trypticase™ Soy Agar with 5% Sheep Blood (TSA II) is a nutritious general purpose medium for the isolation and cultivation of nonfastidious and fastidious microorganisms from a variety of clinical and non-clinical materials and thedetection of hemolytic reactions.

GC-Chocolate Agar 120. Chocolate Agar (GCII Agar with BD IsoVitaleX™) is a non-selective medium for the isolation and cultivation of fastidious microorganisms, especially Neisseria and Haemophilus species, from a variety of clinical specimens.

Sabouraud Glucose Agar with Chloramphenicol 20. Sabouraud Glucose Agar with Chloramphenicol is a selective medium for the isolation of fungi from clinical and non-clinical material.

Columbia III Agar with 5% Sheep Blood 20. This is a highly nutritious general purpose medium for the isolation and cultivation of nonfastidious and fastidious microorganisms from a variety of clinical and non-clinical material. It is more nutritious than Columbia Agar with 5% Sheep Blood.Selected proprietary growth factors have been added that enhance the beta hemolysis, expecially of streptococci.

Columbia III Agar with 5% Sheep Blood 120. This is a highly nutritious general purpose medium for the isolation and cultivation of nonfastidious and fastidious microorganisms from a variety of clinical and non-clinical material. It is more nutritious than Columbia Agar with 5% Sheep Blood.Selected proprietary growth factors have been added that enhance the beta hemolysis, expecially of streptococci.

CHROMagar® Salmonella Medium 20. BD CHROMagar® Salmonella is a selective differential medium for the isolation and presumptive identification of Salmonelladirectly from stool specimens and from enrichments such as selenite broth. It may also be used for the isolation of Salmonellafrom specimens other than feces such as food and water.

CHROMagar® Candida Medium 120. BD CHROMagar® Candida medium is for the isolation and differentiation of Candida albicans, C. tropicalis and C. krusei. Due to the differences in morphology and colors of the yeast colonies, this medium facilitates the detection of mixed yeastcultures in specimens. It may also be used as a selective isolation medium for other yeasts and for filamentous fungi.

Pseudosel™ Agar 20. BD Pseudosel™ Agar is used for the selective isolation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from a variety of specimens.

BD Dermatophyte Agar is a selective medium for the isolation of pathogenic fungi from cutaneous sources such as skin, hair, and nails.

TCBS Agar 20. Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Salts Sucrose Agar (TCBS) is a selective differential medium used for the selective isolation of choleravibrios and Vibrio parahaemolyticus from a variety of clinical and non-clinical specimens.

Plate Count Agar / Standard Methods Agar 20. Plate Count Agar, also known as Standard Methods Agar, is a Standard Methods medium used for enumerating aerobicbacteria in water, wastewater, foods, and dairy products.

Violet Red Bile Glucose (VRBG) Agar 20. VRBG Agar is used for the enumeration and isolation of Enterobacteriaceae from foods and dairy products.Glucose is the carbon and energy source. Bile salts and crystal violet inhibit Gram-positive bacteria. Glucosefermenters produce red colonies with red-purple halos in the presence of neutral red, a pH indicator.

Brilliant Green Agar, Modified 20. Brilliant Green Agar Modified is used for isolating Salmonella from water, sewage, and food-stuffs. It is recommended bythe British Poultry Meat Society for the examination of poultry and poultry products and is mentioned in the LMBG and ISOstandards for foods. The recommended procedures include using complementary selective culture media and techniques toincrease the likelihood of isolating multiple serotypes of Salmonella from samples. The medium is also known as BrilliantGreen Phenol Red Lactose Sucrose Modified Agar in several guidelines.

Middlebrook 7H10 Agar 20. Middlebrook 7H10 Agar contains a variety of inorganic salts which provide substances essential for the growth of mycobacteria. The sodium citrate, when converted to citric acid, holds certain inorganic cations in solution. Glycerol is an abundantsource of carbon and energy. Oleic acid, as well as other long chain fatty acids, can be utilized by tubercle bacilli and plays animportant role in the metabolism of mycobacteria. Catalase destroys toxic peroxides that may be present in the medium.The primary effect of albumin is that of protection of the tubercle bacilli against toxic agents, therefore enhancing their recovery by primary isolation. Partial inhibition of bacteria is achieved by the presence of the malachite green dye. Used in qualitative procedures for the isolation and cultivation of Mycobacteria.

Bifidobacterium Agar Beerens, Modified 20. This agar is a partially selective medium for the isolation of bifidobacteria especially, but not only, from human stool specimens.Bifidobacterium Medium as described by Beerens is based on Columbia Agar base, supplemented with propionic acid, at pH 5.0.Propionic acid has been shown to inhibit fungi and many bacteria other than bifidobacteria. The low pH of the medium furthercontributes to inhibit other predominating organisms of human feces, such as Bacteroides and Eubacterium species. BDBifidobacterium Agar, Modified is a slight modification of the original medium, supplemented with lactulose, a sugar used as a prebiotic that is preferably fermented by bifidobacteria. Glucose as a universal sugar has been added to accelerate initial growth. Riboflavin is a vitamin for many bifidobacteria. The pH has been slightly increased from 5.0 to 5.5 to improve gel strength of the agar and better growth of Bifidobacterium.

Baird Parker Agar 20. Baird Parker Agar is a moderately selective and differential medium for the isolation and enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus in foods, environmental, and clinical specimens.

Brucella Blood Agar with Hemin and Vitamin K1 20. Brucella Agar with Hemin and Vitamin K1 is an enriched, nonselective medium for the isolation and cultivation of a widevariety of obligate anaerobic microorganisms.

Columbia Agar with 5% Horse Blood 20. This agar is a highly nutritious general purpose medium for the isolation and cultivation of nonfastidious and fastidiousmicroorganisms from clinical and non-clinical materials. It should be noted that beta-hemolytic reactions depend on the typeof blood added; as an example, enterococci which only very rarely hemolyse sheep blood, will produce a well visible betahemolysis on horse blood. Staphylococcus aureus which is usually beta hemolytic on sheep blood, will often be non-hemolyticon horse blood.

BD CDC Anaerobe Agar with 5% Sheep Blood is a nonselective medium for the isolation and cultivation of fastidious, obligately anaerobic bacteria from clinical specimens and nonclinical materials.

9 cm, single bagged.

Pseudomonas Isolation Agar 20. Pseudomonas Isolation Agar is used in isolating Pseudomonas and differentiating Pseudomonas aeruginosa from otherpseudomonads based on pigment formation.

R2A Agar, aseptic (90 mm), single wrapped (1x cellophane).

R2A Agar 20. A ready-to-use medium for the performance of heterotrophic plate counts and for subcultures of bacteria isolated from potable water samples. It is recommended for use in standard methods for pour plate, spread plate, and membrane filteranalyses.

R2A Agar, aseptic (90 mm), single wrapped (1x cellophane).

R2A Agar 120. A ready-to-use medium for the performance of heterotrophic plate counts and for subcultures of bacteria isolated from potable water samples. It is recommended for use in standard methods for pour plate, spread plate, and membrane filteranalyses.

CHROMagar® Staph Aureus Medium 20. BD CHROMagar® Staph Aureus Medium is a selective differential medium for the isolation, enumeration, and identification of Staphylococcus aureus from clinical sources and food (without the use of confirmatory testing for clinical sources).

CHROMagar® MRSA II 20. 257435 A selective and differential medium primarily used for the qualitative and direct detection of colonization by methicillin 120resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to aid in the prevention and control of MRSA infections.

CHROMagar® Candida Medium 20. BD CHROMagar® Candida medium is for the isolation and differentiation of Candida albicans, C. tropicalis and C. krusei. Due to the differences in morphology and colors of the yeast colonies, this medium facilitates the detection of mixed yeastcultures in specimens. It may also be used as a selective isolation medium for other yeasts and for filamentous fungi.

CHROMagar® Orientation Medium 20. 254107 BD CHROMagar® Orientation is a non-selective medium for the isolation, direct identification, differentiation, and enume- 120ration of urinary tract pathogens.