ReadyPlate™ CT Baird Parker Agar ISO 6888 [Pack of 20]

Description

General
This culture medium complies with the specifications given by EN ISO 6888, FDA-BAM and APHA.

For the isolation, presumptive identification and enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus from food and
animal feed as well as from other materials.

Mode of Action
This medium attains its selectivity with potassium chloride, lithium chloride and glycine. Sodium
pyruvate is essential to both recovery of damaged Staphylococcus aureus cells and their subsequent
growth. Agar is the solidifying agent.
With added egg yolk tellurite emulsion, coagulase-positive staphylococci form black or grey colonies
due to tellurite reduction with or without egg yolk reaction. Egg-yolk reaction is shown by characteristic
zones and rings formed as a result of lipolysis and/or proteolysis.
According EN ISO 6888-1, the addition of sulfamethazine is advised to suppress the growth and
swarming of Proteus spp. if these are suspected in the test sample.
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