Hardy Diagnostics, Chemicals
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HardyDisk™ Lysostaphin Differentiation Disk
Hardy DiagnosticsUsed to rapidly differentiate Staphylococcus spp. and Micrococcus spp. based on lysostaphin resistance. Make a suspension of the bacteria, add the disk, look for a clearing of turbidity if Staph is present.
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Brilliant Green Bile Brth HDx, 20x125mm tube
Hardy DiagnosticsFor the detection of coliforms in water and food. Contains a durham tube for gas detection.
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Heavy Mineral Oil
Hardy DiagnosticsUsed as a sealant to create an anaerobic environment for biochemical tests such as decarboxylase; and oxidation and fermentation reactions. Can be used for filling cupules in bacterial identification strips, such as API or Microgen.
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Blood Agar 5%, 15x100mm Plate
Hardy DiagnosticsBlood Agar - Recommended for use as general purpose growth media for the isolation, cultivation, and differentiation of a wide variety of microorganisms. Contains 5% sheep blood from a veterinary supervised, controlled herd of donor animals. Blood is guaranteed to be from healthy…
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OxiDrop™, Oxidase Test
Hardy DiagnosticsOxiDrop™, Oxidase Test is a liquid ready-to-use reagent that is used in procedures to detect cytochrome oxidase activity in bacteria. For testing the oxidase reaction, contains tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine. Simply place one drop on the suspect colony (directly on the plate) and look for…
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Ninhydrin Reagent
Hardy DiagnosticsFor use in rapid determination of sodium hippurate hydrolysis reactions in bacteria. Useful for the presumptive identification of Campylobacter, Listeria, and Gardnerella vaginella.
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Q-Slide™ Gram
Hardy DiagnosticsA convenient ready-to-stain control slide that will test both your stain solutions and your staining techniques. Positive and negative stain control organisms are affixed to the circles in each Q-Slide™. Up to four patient specimens (in the squares) may be processed at the same time as the QC…
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Methylene Blue
Hardy DiagnosticsFor Acid Fast Stain procedure, and other uses. An aqueous solution of methylene blue.
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Malonate Broth
Hardy DiagnosticsFor the differentiation of gram negative bacilli based on malonate utilization.
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DesiView Desiccant Packs
Hardy DiagnosticsA desiccant with indicator crystals, which turn from blue to pink when exhausted with moisture. Ideal for use in antimicrobial disk containers and dispensers. Keeps disks dry and preserves potency.
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Gram Stain Kit Advanced™
Hardy DiagnosticsUsed to stain microorganisms from cultures or specimens by the differential gram method. Produces gram stains with brighter more distinct colors. Kit includes: Hucker's Crystal Violet Iodine, stabilized Decolorizer, Fast Counterstain, Advanced
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University of Vermont (UVM) Medium, Broth
Hardy DiagnosticsUVM Modified Listeria Enrichment Broth is recommended for the rapid isolation of Listeria monocytogenes. This product is not intended to be used for the diagnosis of human disease.
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BlueMount™, Permanent Fungal Stain
Hardy DiagnosticsA permanent slide mounting media for mycology specimens that contains the stain lactophenol cotton blue. Produces a long lasting permanently stained slide. Contains polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) that will dry and set up hard to create a perfectly preserved slid
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Dilu-Lok II™, Butterfield's Buffer
Hardy DiagnosticsButterfield’s buffer meets or exceeds requirements established by APHA, FDA, AOAC, and USP for food and dairy products and pharmaceutical testing. Monopotassium phosphate is used in the Butterfield's Buffer for plate count procedures in the microbiological examination of various…
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Potassium Hydroxide (KOH)
Hardy DiagnosticsFor use in slide preparations of specimens for the purpose of identifying fungal elements.
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AFB Nitrate Reagent A
Hardy DiagnosticsAFB nitrate developer reagent is to be used with Nitrate Substrate Broth, Hardy Diagnostics (Cat. no. R97) and AFB Nitrate Reagent B (Cat. no Z125). Reagent A contains sulfanilimide.
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Bile Esculin Agar, BEAHDx, 15x100mm plate
Hardy Diagnostics(Bile Esculin Agar) For the detection of group D streptococci including enterococci.
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Tryptic Soy Broth (TSB) with Lecithin and Tween® 80
Hardy DiagnosticsTryptic Soy Broth (TSB) with Lecithin and Tween® 80 is recommended for the cultivation of a wide variety of fastidious and nonfastidious microorganisms from nonclinical specimens, when the neutralization of disinfectants is desired. This medium can also
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Aspergillus brasiliensis derived from ATCC® 16404™
Hardy Diagnostics10 pellets of a single microorganism with a predetermined quantitative assay fungus; Mean Assay Value: 1.0-9.9E+06 CFU per pellet
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Loeffler's Methylene Blue Stain
Hardy DiagnosticsUsed to examine metachromic granules in C. diphtheriae, screening bacteria in CSF, or for enumeration of fecal leukocytes.
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(Plate Count Agar) For the cultivation and enumeration of microorganisms in dairy products, food, and water.
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Q-Slide™ AFB
Hardy DiagnosticsA convenient ready-to-stain control slide that will test both your stain solutions and your staining techniques. Positive and negative stain control organisms are affixed to the circles in each Q-Slide™. Up to four patient specimens (in the squares) may be processed at the same time as the QC…
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Letheen Broth, 90ml HDx, 8oz glass jar R, 12 x 90ml bottles
Hardy DiagnosticsFor use to determine bactericidal activity of quaternary ammonium compounds.
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DG-18 Agar (Dichloran-Glycerol)
Hardy DiagnosticsHardy Diagnostics DG-18, or Dichloran Glycerol, Agar is based on a formulation by Hocking and Pitt and is recommended for the enumeration of xerophilic yeasts and molds from dried and semi-dried foods. DG-18 Agar is recommended as a selective medium for t
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Bovine Serum Albumin, 0.2%
Hardy DiagnosticsUsed for the preparation of specimens for AFB culture. A growth stimulant for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Hardy Diagnostics CRITERION™ Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (Sabdex) is recommended for the isolation, cultivation, and maintenance of non-pathogenic and pathogenic species of fungi and yeasts. CRITERION™ Dehydrated Culture Media by Hardy Diagnostics is formulated to meet or exceed the…
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Buffered Charcoal Yeast Extract (BCYE) Agar formulations are recommended for use in the cultivation and primary isolation of Legionella spp. in water and other samples suspected of harboring the bacteria. BCYE with DGVP contains the dyes bromcresol purpl