Defibrinated sheep blood is ideal for blood agar plate preparations. Blood Agar is a general purpose enriched medium often used to grow fastidious organisms and to differentiate bacteria based on their hemolytic properties.

Fluid Thioglycollate Medium is a general purpose liquid enrichment medium used in qualitative procedures for the sterility test and for the isolation and cultivation of aerobes, anaerobes and microaerophiles that are not excessively fastidious. In clinical microbiology, it may be used as an…

A selective medium for the isolation of pathogenic Staphylococci.

Standard Methods Agar (SMA) is used for obtaining microbial plate counts from milk and dairy products, water and other materials of sanitary importance.

Ureaplasma Agar and Broth are recommended for the cultivation and isolation of Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma hominis.

m-Endo Agar LES is a Standard Methods Medium used for the enumeration of coliform organisms in water by the membrane filtration method.

For the detection and isolation of Shigella and Salmonella from clinical specimens.

VacCHECK is combined with Marek’s diluent to monitor vaccination efficacy.

Potato Dextrose Agar is recommended for the culture of molds and yeasts, and the stimulation of sporulation.

Phenylethanol Agar is recommended for use in culturing clinical specimens of mixed Gram positive and negative flora where isolation of Gram positive organisms is desired. It is especially useful in inhibiting the “swarming” property of Proteus.

Ureaplasma Agar and Broth are recommended for the cultivation and isolation of Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma hominis.

The nutrient culture media is recommended for cultivation of microorganisms which are non-fastidious in their nutritional requirements.

Tryptic Soy Broth is recommended for the general cultivation of a wide variety of microorganisms. Tryptic soy broth conforms to the formula specified in the US Pharmacopoeia, USP. Northeast Laboratory Services offers a wide range of Tryptic Soy Broth available in both tubes and bottles.

Triple sugar Iron Agar is used for the differentiation of microorganisms on the basis of dextrose, lactose and sucrose fermentation and hydrogen sulfide production.

This medium has been long used in Microbiology for the cultivation of fungi, especially Dermatophytes.

Edwards Medium is a selective medium for the rapid isolation of streptococcus agalactiae and other streptococci associated with mastitits and also from other clinical samples.

Recommended for isolation and enumeration of yeasts and mould from milk and milk products.

Chocolate Agar is recommended for the cultivation and isolation of Neisseria and Haemophilus species. CO₂ favors primary isolation. The medium is best for organisms which require X and V Factor.

Cetrimide Agar is designed for selective isolation and identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Nutrient Agar w/ MUG is used to confirm the presence of E. coli in water. Whether this confirmation is considered “final” or “presumptive” will depend on the applicable guidelines and sample source of the test.

Pseudomonas Isolation Agar (PIA) is a selective medium for the isolation of Pseudomonas and differentiating Pseudomonas aeruginosa from other pseudomonads on the basis of pigment formation.

Xylose Lysine Desoxycholate is a selective medium for the isolation and differentiation of enteric pathogens, especially Shigella species.

Mueller Hinton Agar is recommended for the antimicrobial disc diffusion susceptibility testing of common rapidly growing aerobic or facultative anaerobic microorganisms by the Kirby-Bauer method, as standardized by the Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute M2-A9, Ninth Edition (2006).

Lysine Iron Agar is used to differentiate enteric organisms based on their ability to decarboxylate or deaminate lysine and to form hydrogen sulfide.

This is a selective enrichment broth for the isolation of Salmonella spp. From pharmaceutical, food, dairy and environmental samples.

Tryptic Soy Agar is recommended for the general cultivation of a wide variety of microorganisms. Tryptic Soy Agar conforms to the formula specified in the US Pharmacopoeia, USP. Northeast Laboratory Services offers a wide range of Tryptic Soy Agar available in petri dish, tube and bottle.

Brilliant Green Agar is a selective medium for the isolation of Salmonella species other than Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi A from fecal specimens, dairy products, or other material. Brilliant Green Agars w/ Sulfadiazine, Nalidixic Acid and/or Nalidixic Acid & Novobiocin are used in…

Physiological Saline and Phosphate Buffered Saline are used as isotonic diluents or bacterial suspensions. Sterilized Water is used for serial dilutions of suspensions.

PPLO (Mycoplasma) agars and broths, when supplemented with nutritive enrichments, are used for isolating and cultivating Mycoplasma. Mycoplasma Broth base (Frey) is used for the cultivation of avian mycoplasmas.

Tryptic Soy Agar is recommended for the general cultivation of a wide variety of microorganisms. Tryptic Soy Agar conforms to the formula specified in the US Pharmacopoeia, USP.

Eosin Methylene Blue Agar [EMB] is a differential plating medium recommended for use in the isolation of Gram negative enteric bacilli.

Thioglycollate Medium w/o Indicator is an enriched general purpose medium used for cultivating and detecting microorganisms in normally sterile materials, especially those containing mercurial preservatives when the oxidation-reduction indicator is not present or required. Thioglycollate Medium w/o…