| A-1 Medium |
500g |
It is used for the detection of fecal coliforms in drinking water, treated wastewater, seawater, and beverages. |
| APT (All-Purpose Tween) Agar |
500g |
It is used for cultivating heterofermentative Lactobacilli from food products and other organisms requiring high thiamine content |
| Azide Blood Agar Base |
500g |
It is a selective medium intended to detect and isolate Streptococci and Staphylococci from a variety of different samples including food and sewage. |
| Azide Dextrose Broth |
500g |
It is used for the detection and enrichment of faecal streptococci in water and sewage. |
| Bacillus cereus Agar |
500g |
It is a selective medium for the detection, isolation and quantification of Bacillus cereus in foods. |
| Baird Parker Agar |
500g |
It is used with Egg Yolk Tellurite Enrichment for the detection, isolation and enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci in foods and cosmetics. |
| Barney Miller Agar |
500g |
It is used for the detection and enumeration of beer spoilage microorganisms such as Lactobacillus and Pediococcus spp. |
| Biggy Agar |
500g |
It is used for the isolation and presumptive identification of Candida spp. An abbreviation for Bismuth Glucose Glycine Yeast Agar, BIGGY Agar is a modification of the formula described by Nickerson. |
| Bile Esculin Agar |
500g |
It is used for isolating and presumptively identifying Group D Streptococci based on their ability to hydrolyze Esculin. |
| Bile Esculin Azide Agar |
500g |
It is used for isolating and presumptively identifying Group D Streptococci based on their ability to hydrolyze Esculin. |
| Bismuth Sulfite Agar |
500g |
It is used for the isolation of Salmonella spp. A modification by Wilson and Blair, Bismuth Sulfite Agar uses Bismuth and Sodium Sulfite for the selective isolation of typhoid and non-typhoid Salmonella strains. This medium is used particularly for the isolation of Salmonella typhi from clinical and environmental specimens including food, faeces, urine, and sewage. |
| Blood Agar Base No. 2 |
500g |
It is used for the isolation and identification of the hemolytic activity of Streptococci, Pneumococci, and other fastidious microorganisms. |
| Blood Agar Base pH 7.4 |
500g |
It is used for the isolation and cultivation of fastidious microorganisms. |
| Bolton Broth |
500g |
It is used for the selective enrichment of Campylobacter in food samples. |
| Brain Heart Infusion Agar |
500g |
It is used for the cultivation of fastidious microorganisms. |
| Brain Heart Infusion Broth |
500g |
It is a highly nutritional liquid medium used for the cultivation of pathogenic cocci and other fastidious microorganisms. |
| Brain Heart Infusion Broth w/o Dextrose |
500g |
It is a liquid medium used for the cultivation of fastidious microorganisms. |
| Brilliant Green Agar |
500g |
It is a selective medium used for the isolation of Salmonella spp. other than S. typhi. Brilliant Green Agar was first described by Kristensen in 1925 and later modified by Kauffman in 1935. |
| Brilliant Green Bile Agar |
500g |
It is a medium used for confirming the presence of coliforms in water, sewage, and dairy products. |
| Brilliant Green Bile Broth 2% |
500g |
It also referred to as Brilliant Green Bile Broth or Brilliant Green Bile Lactose Broth, is a liquid medium used for confirming the presence of coliforms in water, sewage, and dairy products. |
| Brucella Agar |
500g |
It is a highly nutritious medium specifically designed for the isolation, enrichment, and cultivation of Brucella and Campylobacter spp. |
| Brucella Broth |
500g |
It is a highly nutritious liquid medium specifically designed for the isolation, enrichment, and cultivation of Brucella and Campylobacter spp. |
| BTB (Bromothymol Blue) Lactose Agar |
500g |
It is used for the detection and isolation of pathogenic Staphylococci. On this medium, Staphylococci are differentiated based on their ability to grow at high pH and in the presence of Bromothymol Blue. |
| Buffered Listeria Enrichment Broth |
500g |
It is used for the selective enrichment of Listeria spp. A modification of Listeria Enrichment Broth developed by Lovett, this medium was designed to improve the enrichment of Listeria spp. with the addition of Disodium Phosphate to increase the buffering capacity. Listeria spp., found in soil, sewage, and river water in addition to unprocessed foods, are Gram- positive, short and motile rods. |
| Buffered Listeria Enrichment Broth Base |
500g |
It is an enrichment medium for the detection and enumeration of Listeria in food and environmental samples. |
| Buffered Peptone Water |
500g |
It is used for pre-enriching damaged Salmonella spp. from various food sources. Edel and Kampelmacher noted that food preservation techniques such as heat, desiccation, high osmotic pressures, or pH changes can cause sub-lethal injury to Salmonella microorganisms. |
| Buffered Peptone Water (ISO/BAM) |
500g |
It is used for pre-enriching damaged Salmonella spp. from various food sources. As Salmonella may be present in low numbers and/or sub-lethally injured, pre-enrichment provides the cells with time to repair and multiply before being introduced to selective culture, thereby improving the chances of recovery from the sample. |
| Burkholderia Cepacia Selective Agar (BCSA) USP |
500g |
It is an agar medium recommended for the selective and differential isolation of Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc). B.cepacia is an important pathogen in pulmonary infections in patients with cystic fibrosis, and BCSA was devised for isolation of the organism from respiratory secretions of patients to be tested under research laboratory conditions. In 1997, Henry et al. 1 formulated a highly selective medium to improve the speed and accuracy of B.cepacia complex isolation and to provide quantitative recovery. This product is formulated according to USP <60>. |
| Campy Blood-Free Selective Medium |
500g |
It is a medium used in combination with antibiotics for the detection, isolation and quantification of Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli and C. lari in foods. |
| Campylobacter Enrichment Broth |
500g |
It (Bolton broth) is a specialized, selective medium designed to recover injured Campylobacter spp. from food, environmental, and clinical samples. |
| Cary & Blair Medium |
500g |
it is a semisolid medium employed in the transportation and preservation of samples such as stools and rectal swabs to prevent the rapid loss of viability of pathogenic enteric Gram-negative bacilli like Shigella spp., Salmonella spp., Yersinia spp., and Vibrio parahaemolyticus. |
| CDC Anaerobic Agar |
500g |
It is used for the isolation and cultivation of obligate anaerobes. |
| Selective supplement |
500g |
It is for the isolation of E. coli O157:H7. The principal cause of haemorrhagic colitis, and others significant human illnesses characterised by bloody diarrhoea and severe abdominal pain, is supposed to be Escherichia coli O157. |
| Cetrimide Agar |
500g |
It is used to selectively cultivate Pseudomonas aeruginosa. |
| Charcoal Agar |
500g |
It is a specialized, selective, and enriched solid medium designed to cultivate fastidious microorganisms, most notably Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis |
| Chromogenic Coliforms Agar (CCA) |
500g |
It is a selective medium for the detection of E. coli and other coliforms in water and food samples |
| CLED Agar |
500g |
It is used for the detection of urinary pathogens. Its low content in electrolytes prevents the swarming of Proteus spp. L-Cystine promotes the formation of dwarf colonies. |
| CLED Agar, Bevis |
500g |
It is recommended for the cultivation and detection of urinary pathogens. CLED Agar (Cystine-Lactose-Electrolyte-Deficient) was first formulated by Sandys and later modified by Mackey and Sand. |
| Clostridium Difficile Agar |
500g |
It is a solid medium employed for the isolation of Clostridium difficile. |
| Clostrisel Agar |
500g |
It is a highly selective medium for the recovery of Clostridium spp from clinical and other sources. |
| Coliform Medium |
500g |
It is used for the detection of Escherichia coli and other coliforms in food and environmental samples. For Coliform detection in water and waste water. |
| Columbia Agar |
500g |
It is a highly nutritious, general-purpose medium designed for the cultivation and isolation of fastidious and non-fastidious microorganisms, including anaerobes. |
| Columbia Blood Agar |
500g |
It is a solid medium used for the cultivation of fastidious and non-fastidious microorganisms. |
| Columbia Broth |
500g |
It is used for the cultivation of fastidious and non-fastidious organisms. Eller et al. First described Columbia broth. It was designed to produce rapid and luxuriant growth of a range of organisms due to its high nutrient content. |
| Columbia CNA Agar Medium |
500g |
It is used with blood in isolating Gram-positive cocci. Eliner et al. added Colistin Sulfate and Nalidixic Acid to Columbia Agar to suppress the growth of Gram-negative bacteria. |
| Contagious Equine Metritis Organism (CEMO) Agar |
500g |
It is a selective medium designed for the cultivation of Taylorella equigenitalis, the causative agent of Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) |
| Corn Meal Agar |
500g |
It is a general-purpose medium for the cultivation of fungi, in particular for the production of chlamydospores by Candida albicans. In this medium, Corn Meal Infusion provides all the nutrients required for fungal growth and Agar is the gelifying agent. The medium can be supplemented with Tween 80 to enhance chlamydospore formation. |
| Cystine Heart Agar |
500g |
It is a solid medium recommended for the cultivation of the tularemia-causing bacteria Francisella tularensis, Gram-negative cocci, and other pathogenic organisms. |
| Cystine Tryptone Agar |
500g |
It is a solid medium recommended for the maintenance, subculture, motility detection, and detection of fermentation reactions of fastidious microorganisms. Motility can be detected in semisolid Agar, since motile cultures grow away from the line of inoculation, while non-motile organisms grow along the stab line. |
| DC (Differential Coliform) Medium |
500g |
It is a selective medium for the growth and isolation of Escherichia coli. |