Supplies, HiMedia, 500 g
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General purpose medium and for cultivation of fastidious organisms. Promotes faster growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, viridans Streptococci and Enterococcus groups. It gives improved recovery of both aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms from blood specimens. Appearance: Cream to…
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Granulated Sabouraud Dextrose Agar Medium 3 is for cultivation of yeasts, moulds and aciduric microorganisms in accordance with IP 2010.
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Granulated King’s Medium B Base
HiMediaGranulated King’s Medium B Base is for the non selective isolation, cultivation and pigment production of Pseudomonas species.
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Crystal violet pectate medium is recommended for the cultivation of pectolytic microorganisms, which can degrade sodium polypectate in the medium. This medium contains crystal violet, which makes it selective for gram-negative bacteria and prevents growth of unwanted organisms. Polypectate serves…
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Glucose Yeast Extract Acetate Broth is recommended for cultivation of Lactobacilli. Prepared by slight modification of the formula described by Evans and Niven and Rogosa et al and is used for enumerating Lactobacilli in pharmaceutical preparations. Application: For Cultivation of Lactobacilli …
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Fungi that multiply on skin are called dermatophytes. Dermatomycosis is a general term for mycotic parasitism of the skin. These can be isolated on differential selective media containing generous amounts of glucose and antibiotics to suppress bacterial growth (1). Fungobiotic Agar is used for…
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HiMedia Phenylethanol Agar Base
HiMediaPhenylethanol Agar Base medium is utilized for the selective isolation of gram-positive bacteria. This medium can be supplemented with 5 % sheep blood. This medium is especially useful when specimens are contaminated with swarming Proteus species. It is also useful in the diagnostic studies of…
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HiMedia Basal Mineral Medium
HiMediaBasal Mineral Medium is used for the cultivation of Beggiatoa species. Beggiatoa is most frequently found in natural environments high in heterotrophic organisms. Beggiatoa is one of the few filamentous bacteria that is motile. They have sulphur granules within its cells and attached growth is…
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Eijkman Lactose Broth
HiMediaColiform organism is a term used to designate the lactose-fermenting Enterobacteria such as Escherichia coli and Enterobacter . Enterobacteriaceae forms a large group of gram-negative bacteria that inhabit intestinal tract of warmblooded animals. Therefore they constitute the major microbial…
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Granulated SPS Agar
HiMediaGranulated SPS Agar is for detection of Clostridium perfringens in foods.
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HiCrome™ ESBL Agar Base
HiMediaHiCrome ESBL Agar Base is recommended for selective isolation Extended-Spectrum ß-lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaeceae.
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Norris Glucose Nitrogen Free Medium is used for the cultivation of chemoheterotrophic bacteria that can fix atmospheric nitrogen. The medium contains glucose, which serves as the carbon source. Sodium molybdate in the medium increases the fixation of nitrogen. Various salts in the medium serve as…
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HiMedia NNN Modified Medium
HiMediaNNN Modified Medium (Twin Pack) is recommended for cultivation of Leishmaniae and Trypanosomes. It consists of two phases, blood agar, Part A and Lockes solution, Part B. This modified medium is commonly used for diagnostic work. Application: Recommended for Cultivation of Leishmaniae and Trypanosomes
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HiMedia Malt Agar
HiMediaMalt agar is recommended by APHA for use in both antibiotic and acidified standard methods for yeast and mold counts in food. This medium is also used for maintaining stock cultures of fungi. with acidic pH, they are used for the isolation, cultivation and maintenance of yeast and molds. …
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Lactose Broth
HiMediaExamination of water, foods, ingredients and raw materials, for the presence of marker groups such as coliforms is one of the most common tests in a microbiology laboratory, partly because of the relative ease and speed with which these tests can be accomplished. Where it is claimed that drinking…
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McClung Toabe HiVeg™ agar base is recommended for detection and isolation of Clostridium perfringens from food samples on the basis of their lecithinase and lipase activity. Lecithinase enzyme lyses egg yolk lecithin, producing an opaque zone of precipitation surrounding the slightly raised…
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Reinforced Clostridial Broth w/o Agar is formulated by Hirsch and Grinsted (1). It can be used to initiate growth from small inocula and to obtain the highest viable count of Clostridia. Barnes and Ingram used the broth medium for diluting an inoculum of vegetative cells of Clostridium perfringens…
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Fluid Thioglycollate Medium
HiMediaBrewer (1) formulated Fluid Thioglycollate Medium for rapid cultivation of aerobes as well as anaerobes including microaerphiles by adding a reducing agent and small amount of agar. The British Pharmacopoeia (2) USP (3), EP (4) and AOAC (5) have recommended the media for sterility testing of…
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MUG EC Broth
HiMediaEscherichia coli is a member of faecal coliform group of bacteria. It is a member of the indigenous faecal flora of warmblooded animals. E.coli is considered a specific indicator of faecal contamination and the possible presence of enteric pathogens. EC Broth was devised by Hajna and Perry (1)…
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Hiveg selective against gram-positive organisms which are inhibited by optimum concentration of sodium deoxycholate and sodium citrate in the medium. It helps to differentiate between lactose fermenting and nonfermenting enteric bacilli, used for the detection of coliform bacilli. Application: For…
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Tryptone, ES, (Casitose, ES) is obtained by refined processing of milk protein, manufactured under controlled enzymatic hydrolysis. It is rich in tryptophan content and is extra soluble as compared to other casitose. It can be used as a microbial nutrient in diagnostic and fermentation medias. It…
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HiMedia HI Broth Medium
HiMediaThe medium containing infusion from beef heart is used for the isolation and cultivation of a wide variety of fastidious organisms. It can also be used for the cultivation of Vibrio species. The medium can also be supplemented with glucose, horse serum and antibiotics for the cultivation a wide…
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Lactobacillus Selection agar base is recommended for isolation and enumeration of Lactobacilli from food. This medium is used as a selective medium for isolation and enumeration of Lactobacilli from oral, faecal specimens, food and dairy products. It is found to be more suitable for growth of…
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HiMedia CHO Medium Base
HiMediaCHO Medium Base is recommended as a basal medium to which carbohydrates may be added for use in fermentation studies of anaerobic bacteria. Bromothymol blue is the pH indicator. Color of the medium changes to yellow on fermentation of carbohydrate that is added for study. Application: For a Basal…
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Sporulation Broth
HiMediaSporulation Broth was originally developed by Arret and Kirshbaum for the detection of antibiotic residues in milk and milk products (1). The medium is specified for the preparation of spores, by APHA, for disc assay procedure for the detection of sulfa drugs and antibiotics in milk (2). …
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Certified Mycological Peptone
HiMediaMycological peptone is a mixture of vegetable and plant peptones which is nutritious source for the isolation, cultivation and identification of saprophytic and dermatophytic fungi-yeast and moulds. Appearance Light yellow to yellow Homogenous Free flowing powder Solubility Freely…
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HiMedia Toluidine Blue DNA Agar
HiMediaToluidine Blue DNA Agar is formulated as recommended by APHA (1) for the detection of thermostable deoxyribonuclease activity to establish speciation of Staphylococcus aureus in contaminated foods. DNA in the medium enables the detection of DNase activity which depolymerizes the DNA resulting in…