HiMedia, 5 kg
HIMEDIA
State-of-the-Art products in microbiology,cell culture, plant tissue culture, and molecular biology.
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HiMedia Bacteriological Peptone
HiMediaPeptone, Bacteriological confer nutritional benefit, especially at low dilution rates, and is recommended to support good growth of wide variety of microorganisms. Appearance: Light yellow to brownish yellow homogenous free flowing powder, having Characteristic odor but not putrescent …
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Granulated Tryptone Broth (Tryptone Water) is for detection of indole producing microorganisms.
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Fluid Lactose Medium
HiMediaColiforms are rod shaped gram-negative organisms that ferment lactose with the production of acid and gas. They are regarded as bacterial indicators of sanitary quality of foods and water. Salmonella is a rod shaped gram-negative enterobacteria commonly implicated in foodborne illness. These…
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Granulated Orange Serum Agar
HiMediaGranulated Orange Serum Agar is for cultivation and enumeration of microorganisms associated with spoilage of citrus products, cultivation of Lactobacilli and other aciduric organisms and pathogenic fungi.
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Wayne Sulphatase Agar Base
HiMediaMycobacteria have traditionally been treated as a separate group of bacteria in most clinical laboratories because of certain distinguishing characteristic. First, most strains are slow growing, having prolonged doubling time, ranging from 2-22 hours. This requires an ideal culture environment to…
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Egg Yolk Agar Base, Modified
HiMediaClostridium perfringens food poisoning is one of the most common types of human food borne illness (1). The foods usually involved are cooked meat or poultry products containing large numbers of viable cells. A heat- labile enterotoxin produced only by sporulating cells (2) induces the major…
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Granulated Lactobacillus MRS Agar (MRS Agar) is for isolation and cultivation of Lactobacilli.
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For cultivation of aerobes and anaerobes, especially pathogenic Clostridia and also for the maintenance of stock cultures as per IS:5887(Part II)-1976. Recommended for the detection and enumeration of bacteria responsible for food poisoning. It is used for cultivation and maintenance of Clostridia…
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HiMedia Casman Broth Base
HiMediaCasman Broth Base is used for isolation of fastidious microorganisms from clinical specimens under reduced oxygen tension. Proteose peptone, tryptose and HM Peptone B provide amino acids and other complex nitrogenous nutrients. Dextrose improves growth of pathogenic cocci. Corn starch prevents…
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Tryptose Blood Agar Base
HiMediaTryptose Blood Agar Base is a tryptose based medium that can be used for the cultivation of fastidious organisms (1, 2), on supplementation with blood. This medium is devoid of dextrose and therefore useful in determining the haemolytic reactions. Tryptose Blood Agar Base is recommended by FDA…
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Sodium Taurocholate
HiMediaIt is a purified component of Ox bile(free from bile acid) is recommended as a selective agent in microbiological culture media. Appearance Light yellow to light brown,Homogeneous Free flowing, hygroscopic powder having characteristic sharp odor, but not putrescent. Solubility Freely…
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Yeast Extract Powder
HiMediaIt is rich in vitamins especially those belonging to B complex and is often used to supply these factors in culture media at a concentration of 0.3% to 0.5%. It is particularly used in media for cultivation of microorganisms encountered in milk or other dairy products. Yeast Extract Powder is…
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Middlebrook 7H10 Agar Base
HiMediaDubos and Middlebrook (1) developed various formulations containing oleic acid and albumin, which protect Mycobacterium from toxic agents, helping for the growth of tubercle bacilli. Middlebrook 7H10 Agar Base was formulated as per Middlebrook, Cohn et al (2) reformed the original oleic…
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Hiveg medium used for enumeration of coliform bacteria from materials of sanitary importance. The medium contains a combination of brilliant green and bile, which is highly selective for coliforms, inhibiting most of the gram-positive bacteria including lactose fermenting Clostridia and some…
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Granulated Mannitol Salt Agar
HiMediaFor selective isolation of pathogenic Staphylococci from pharmaceutical products in accordance with the microbial limit testing by harmonized methodology of USP/EP/BP/JP/IP.
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WL Nutrient Broth
HiMediaWL (Wallerstein Laboratory) media are formulated as described by Green and Gray for the examination of materials encountered in brewing and for industrial fermentations containing mixed flora of yeast and bacteria (1, 2). Bakers yeast counts can be carried out in this medium at a pH 5.5. By…
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Granulated Letheen Broth, Modified (Modified Letheen Broth) is for screening cosmetic products for microbial contamination.
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Simmons Citrate Agar
HiMediaThese media are used for the differentiation between Enterobacteriaceae and the members of aerogenes group on the basis of citrate utilization as sole carbon source. Initially the citrate medium was developed by Koser (1) containing ammonium salt as the only nitrogen source and citrate as the only…
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Triple Sugar Iron Agar
HiMediaBrewer thioglycollate medium is prepared as per the original formula of Brewer (1, 2). It contains highly nutritious proteose peptone and beef infusion, which support luxuriant growth of even fastidious bacteria. Sodium thioglycollate helps to create anaerobic condition as well as neutralizes…
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Soyabean Casein Digest Agar is a widely used medium, which supports the growth of wide variety of organisms even that of fastidious ones such as Neisseria, Listeria , and Brucella etc. The medium with addition of blood provides perfectly defined haemolysis zones, while preventing the lysis of…
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Coliforms are considered to be members of Enterobacteriaceae , which grow in the presence of bile salts and produce acid and gas from lactose within 48 hours at 37°C (1). These bacteria can also be defined as, members of Enterobacteriaceae capable of growing at 37°C, that normally…
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Tributyrin HiVeg Agar Base is specially developed from HiVeg peptone to avoid BSE/ TSE risks associated with animal origin Peptic digest of animal tissue. This medium is the modification of Tributyrin Agar Base, which was originally formulated by Anderson (1) for the detection and enumeration of…
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MacConkey Agar is the earliest selective and differential medium for cultivation of enteric microorganisms from a variety of clinical specimens (1, 2). Subsequently MacConkey Agar and Broth have been recommended for use in microbiological examination of foodstuffs (3) and for direct plating /…
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Hiveg Media used for microbiological assay of antibiotics : Erythromycin, Chlortetracycline, Dihydrostreptomycin sulphate, Erythromycin estolate, Framycetin, Gentamicin, Gentamicin sulphate, Kanamycin sulphate, Kanamycin monosulphate, Kanamycin acid sulphate, Netilmicin sulphate, Netilmicin,…
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Microorganisms in an aquatic environment may occur at all depths ranging from the surface region to the very bottom of the ocean trenches. The top layers and the bottom sediments harbour higher concentration of microorganisms (1). Marine microorganisms are vital to ecological cycles because they…
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Granulated Legionella Agar Base
HiMediaWith addition of supplements it is used for cultivation of Legionella species.
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Granulated SPS Agar
HiMediaGranulated SPS Agar is for detection of Clostridium perfringens in foods.
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Plate Count Agar, Special
HiMediaPlate Count Agar, special is used for the enumeration of viable bacteria in raw milk, milk and other diary products (1). Casein enzymic hydrolysate provides amino acids and other complex nitrogenous substances. Yeast extract supplies Vitamin B-complex. Generally pour plate technique is…
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PLET Agar Base
HiMediaAnthrax is an infectious disease caused by spores of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. In human anthrax, the bacillus is usually demonstrable in material from a malignant pustule, sometimes in sputum from pulmonary anthrax and also in the blood in the septicemic stage of all forms of the…