REINFORCED CLOSTRIDIAL AGAR

For the cultivation and enumeration of Clostridia, other anaerobes, Lactobacilli and other species of bacteria.

Description

This is a solid version of Reinforced Clostridial Medium AM156. It is used to culture and enumerate, anaerobes such as Clostridia, also Lactobacilli and some other forms of bacteria, from both food and clinical specimens. It can be used in membrane filter techniques to count Clostridium thermosaccholyticum in sugar.

The media contains no inhibitors, it uses cysteine as a reducing agent. It is effective in initiating viable growth from small inocula. It is frequently used when investigating intestinal flora, such as Bovine Rumen streptococci.

Selected agents can be added if it is desired to examine other animal faeces which is sometimes done in conjunction with added blood.

Additional information

Size

100gm, 2500gm, 5000gm, 500gm